Paul used every opportunity to live for Jesus in the present. He reframes all of his life, and all of the Scriptures, in light of the Gospel (Jesus’ work on the cross on our behalf). Jesus freely chose to become weak, like us, in order to live the life we should have lived and die the death we all should have died.
In 2020 Element is walking through the last 16 chapters of the book of Acts, we are calling this Acts Part 2. We did part one a few years ago where we essentially followed the early church, with a focus on Peter, up through Acts chapter 12. Now we will mostly follow the Apostle Paul as he presents the good news of Jesus to the world with in their cultural contexts.