squirt1 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Jesus died for all not just a few select. The church was be selective in who they shared with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurselaino Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? God clearly more than once states that salvation is for all. There is nothing that need be done as Jesus already has done it. Paul very clearly has a heart for those not of the jewish faith...knowing that Jesus also died for them. By seeing Paul having to remind this "church" that salvation is for all...jews and gentiles alike we can gather that there is arguements here on how and even if gentiles can be saved. This church is holding onto it's jewish ancestry (which it should ...they are the choosen people) but they are also proving to be a stumbling block to those not of the jewish faith. That is wrong...Look at our churchs today and you will see the same thing from denomination to denomination...we need not be concerned on the tiny things ...the gospel is the big picture...God will work out the smaller details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxanne Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 GOD SAID SALVATION IS FOR ALL. WEVARE SUPPOSE TO DO THE LOVBEWALK WITH EVERYONE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerraw20 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the It Ephesus church? It seemes that they were not seeing past thier own little group. This had been holding back the Ephesians from reaching out to the Gentiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Paul emphasizes the salvation of all mankind because factions within this church were focusing on Judaism as the criteria for salvation. This suggests that evangelism in the Ephesus church was distorted and leaning toward Judaism vice the Gospel. Thus, false doctrine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahala p.s. Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Paul emphasizes salvation of all mankind in this letter because in the Ephesus church, where this letter was sent to, the false teachers with their Jewish myths and genealogies have been promoting a kind of Jewish exclusivity so that they had lost their focus on the salvation for the Gentiles, which has been God Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roseangela Agunda Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roseangela Agunda Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Bcause Salvation is the heartbeat of God is for all. The church at Ephesus was teaching the wrong doctine, they thought salvation was only for them and not the gentiles. Looks like evangelism ministry was not effective at all, hene the church was infiltrated by wrong teachings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linda bass Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Paul emphasizes salvation for all mankind in this letter because false teachers focused on Jewish geneologies and myths which excluded the Gentiles. He was pointing out that God desired all men to be saved, not just those of Jewish ancestry. What this suggests about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church was that the members had lost their focus on salvation to the Gentiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungry for more of God Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 The Ephesus church had forgotten that their commission was to take the gospel to all mankind, they were concentrating on those they thought most 'worthy' of salvation - the jews in this case. Are we not also guilty at times of 'choosing' who to evangelise? God wants all men to be saved, not just those we like or are'comfortable' with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Paul is stressing to Timothy that like God we should desire that all men be saved and that should be our business both in prayer and deed. This suggests that the Ephesus Church was focused on itself and not the Great Commission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewell Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Paul emphasizes salvation of all mankind because it is what God wants. His need to request it probably means that the Ephesus church was not focused on salvation of ~all~ mankind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godsanointed523 Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Why does Paul emphasize salvation for all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Cause the false teachers and false prophets had lost track of the gentiles and God wants all to be saved including the Gentiles. Israel was God nation but his salvation became possible because Jesus had died on the cross for us. The church in Ephesus had forgotten that the Great Commission was to preach the gospel and salvation to the whole world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmaus Posted April 6, 2009 Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 Paul emphasized salvation of all mankind because they had forgotten that God wanted all men to be saved and so that they would be able to live peaceful and quiet lives. The practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church had probably ceased to exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvemhot Posted April 6, 2009 Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 Paul wanted salvation for all because it is what God wanted. That all who believes in him will be saved I would say by the letter that it was not going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWADWO Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Paul was called by Jesus on the road to Damascus and the instruction was that he should preach Christ the risen Lord to the Gentiles. He was actually called to the Gentiles and that is exactly what he emphasised. The basis of our calling is evangelism. As the scripture says in Matt. 28. He had no other choice but to preach Christ, the risen Lord. Paul said in one of his letters that 'woe unto me if I don't preach Him'. He had a specific calling. His style of evangelism in Ephesus was superb. He took time to teach those converted so as to root and ground them in the Lord. To Him anything outside salvation was irrelevant in the mission for which he was called. Thank you. Collins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Min_Thomas Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? GOD is not WILLING that ANY should perish but come to REPENTANCE. There is a strong need for the word of GOD to get out to people so they can understand that no matter what the sin or circumstance, that if they come to JESUS just as they are with a sincere and earnest heart and ask for forgiveness; they will be forgiven. GOD forgive and never bring the matter up again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvemhot Posted April 27, 2009 Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 God wants all to be saved all to come to repentance. They had forgot about that and were wanting it to me a by inventation only club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWADWO Posted April 27, 2009 Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? 'I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan W Posted April 28, 2009 Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? 1. Paul emphasized salvation for all mankind because there were certain false doctrine in the church at Ephesus that were ascerting that Salvation was only for the Jews and not for the Gentiles. Paul also stated that God desires all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2. This suggests that the practice of evangelism was not a very important aspect of the church at Ephesus. It indicates that there was some tensions between Jews and Gentiles who were in the church at Ephesus concerning salvation. As a result this has caused the Church Ephesus to depart from the original mission that Jesus gave to the apostles to preach the gospel to all the world. 3. Disputes like the one we are discussing in this lesson is still a common problem in the church. I recently attended a Sunday School Class at a Baptist Chruch where some of the people in the church were saying that not all men can be saved. A story came up about a man who killed a family from the church and is sitting on death row in Oklahoma and awaiting execution. This lady said that God cannot forgive a man who commits murder. This is similar to what we are talking about. Many of the Jews in Ephesus were spreading the doctrine that only Jews can be saved and no one else. There was also the false doctrine that the Gentiles were hated and despised by God. 4. Common little petty things like this is what causes the church to fail in it's mission of preaching the Gospel. We need to stick to the original doctrine that all men can be saved and come into the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prosenstein Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Salvation is not just for the Jews, but for everyone. The gospel shpuld not be exclusive, but it should be preached to everyone. Perhaps there were divisions in the church as to observce of the law or who could receive grace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary C Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Paul was reminding them of their purpose, the church had gone off in left field and were teaching false doctrine. They should have been teaching and preaching to all people Instead they were teaching myths and other false doctrine. It suggest that the leaders in the church was not focusing on evangelism and they were back into teaching to law to the jewish people only. They had lost sight of thier purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioned Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? Paul emphasized salvation of all mankind in this letter because the false teachers were propagating a teaching in so focused on Jewish genealogies that the lost sight of God’s desire which is salvation for all men; not the Jews only but that all men might be saved. What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Today, as we go about in evangelism we must be careful to reach all people with the message of salvation. Jesus, God’s son came into this world and died that all men might be saved. This is our message in the familiar Sunday School memory verse, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” That’s salvation for all men. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peggy Crans Posted October 19, 2009 Report Share Posted October 19, 2009 Q1. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Why does Paul emphasize salvation of all mankind in this letter? What does this suggest about the practice of evangelism in the Ephesus church? Because Christ gave His life for all mankind. Not one does He want to perish. Like John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life". that means everyone. The church at Ephesus was not evangelising. Aparently is was a very disruptive aervice. The false teachers were probably causing a lot of divisions and unrest and not preaching about Christ's death and resurrection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambler Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 Salvation of all mankind is God's purpose through Jesus Christ. God wants all to come to a knowledge of the truth. Their focus was on themselves and not Christ. Anytime we focus on Christ our focus will naturally turn to others because that was what he was all about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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