Acts 9:1-22 + 13:1-5,  Romans 15:20-21,  2 Corinth. 11:23-29, Phillipi. 1:19-21

What series on missions couldn’t include the Apostle Paul? He is considered by many to be the greatest missionary of all time. He traveled around 10,000 miles over land and sea, planted around 20 churches and wrote 1/3 of the New Testament. Here is a man who was completely mission minded! Today I’d like us to consider 3 things that made him this way. If we want to be mission minded we must have these 3 things too and I’ve put them in your sermon in a sentence:

The mind of a missionary must be saved, sent and steadfast.

First we want to focus on being saved and to do that I’d like to do a little oral bible story telling like our missionary Sam Smucker does among the illiterate of PNG so they can hear the Word and understand it-now I’d like to tell you the story of a man named Saul… oh my there he is…