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Originally Posted by brandonadams  Just a thought, what about the Apostle Paul's model where he went to the churches to train them, not the other way around? |
I'm curious to know where Paul did this?
I know he planted churches in many places, and most often he established them in places where he preached the gospel first in Synagogues, and out of them came the ready-made (already biblically knowledgable) eldership for the infant church.
I know he set himself up in Ephesus in the hall of Tyrannus, and for two solid years (besides regular worships, and church duties where he taught publicly and from house to house) he trained future ministers for the Asia territory--like Epaphras, who apparently later went to Colosse. We're told that "all Asia" heard the gospel message because Paul taught daily in one place for 2 years.
But I'm just wondering what texts specifically one would appeal to to demonstrate that Paul "went to churches" (didn't he like to go where no one else had laid a foundation?) to train men to be future ministers? Can you lay out the argument?
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