The Gospel for All People, Part 1

Paul's second missionary journey continues, as he makes his way towards Cilicia and then towards the city of his birth, Tarsus. Paul and Silas add a new gospel worker to the ministry team at Lystra, young Timothy. This team will begin to minister with a missions strategy of reaching out to Jew and Gentile alike, and the results will be the strengthening of the churches established on the first missionary journey and the church growing in numbers. Paul never compromises the true gospel, but Paul makes a cultural accommodation in circumcising Timothy. Timothy's Jewish mother and Greek father and Timothy's not being circumcised present stumbling blocks for Jewish evangelism. Paul and Timothy will be ministry partners until Paul's death and together they will move from Asia to Europe with the gospel in order that they might "become all things to all people so that by all possible means," they, "might save some."