Article June 9, 1973 Issue

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Related to the Lesson-Sermon for June 17, 1973, in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY Subject: God the Preserver of Man

FOUR OF PAUL'S EXPERIENCES, as told in the book of Acts, are included in Sections II-V of this Lesson-Sermon. The locations hint the scope of his travels: Syrian Damascus, where he became a Christian; Lystra in present-day Turkey; Philippi in Greece; and the island of Malta, end of his stormy voyage across the Mediterranean.

Paul's aim was to bring the knowledge of Christ to the "whole world" of his day. Günther Born-kamm (Paul, Harper and Row, 1971) speaks of his worldwide horizons, his amazing confidence that the gospel, once planted in any area, will spread. "Each of the churches founded ... by Paul stands for a whole district."

These travels called for constant triumph over opposition and personal danger, summed up by Paul himself in II Corinthians 11:23–33: "... in journeyings often, ... in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea."

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