tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167250939484647451.post2914982149071459083..comments2024-03-18T00:15:32.042-07:00Comments on Cole-Slaw: How Many Churches Did the Apostle Paul Start?Neil Colehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08289317696474966831noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167250939484647451.post-26883004360388016292014-07-24T18:36:41.022-07:002014-07-24T18:36:41.022-07:00Thanks for your article.
The reference on Illyricu...Thanks for your article.<br />The reference on Illyricum should be Rom 15:19Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167250939484647451.post-75992695417504621762013-12-19T10:16:23.621-08:002013-12-19T10:16:23.621-08:00Bruce, I am sorry for such a delayed response. The...Bruce, I am sorry for such a delayed response. The answer is yes, sort of. I didn't say that the churches didn't continue to exist that were started with a short presence by Paul, but that they were less healthy and more prone to faulty leadership (Galatians). Even Paul had to learn Jesus' principle of "Stay om that household (oikos) do not keep moving from house to house." I have written a good book that clearly spells all of this out called Journeys to Significance.Neil Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08289317696474966831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167250939484647451.post-76646113793733163652011-10-31T10:43:07.699-07:002011-10-31T10:43:07.699-07:00Hi Neil,
A few years ago, I seem to recall you sa...Hi Neil,<br /><br />A few years ago, I seem to recall you saying in a seminar that on Paul's first miss journey he stayed a very short time with the churches that he birthed there, and in his second journey he tended to stay for a good bit longer. And you mentioned that the churches where he did not stay long, did not survive the century, while the ones where he invested more time lasted much longer.<br /><br />Is that a position you still hold? And if so, could you point me to some resources which analyse this... or tell me how you went about analyzing it? I'd like to get some evidence and substantiate it or get it out of my mind.<br /><br />BruceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167250939484647451.post-54717516032527508422011-09-15T16:39:38.364-07:002011-09-15T16:39:38.364-07:00Thank you for that great and encouraging post Brot...Thank you for that great and encouraging post Brother Cole. <br /><br />We don't know the outcome of our lives. Paul didn't. It was his life surrendered to the mission of Christ. <br /><br />I like what Alan Hirsch said in ON THE VERGE: "The church that Jesus designed is more like a starfish...each piece of a starfish has the full potential of a new starfish; twenty pieces lead to twenty starfish!...A church of a thousand disciples has a thousand potential churches contained in itself!"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09190831206441766496noreply@blogger.com