Characters that affected St. Paul

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Characters that affected St. Paul
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Other Characters affected St.Paul1-Gamaliel

• Jewish scholar
• Spiritual

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Stephen

• His Friend
• His age
• Saw or heard his revelation
• Witnessed his martyrdom
• Is it a loss?! While Stephen departing, Paul is
  born

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3-Ananias

• Bishop made Saul disciple, Baptized him
• Taught him the first steps

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4- Barnabas

• Brought him to the apostles. And
• He declared to them how he had seen the Lord on
  the road
• You dont have to be Paul, but you can be Stephen
  or at least Barnabs who brought Saul and helped
  him to become Paul
• A good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith
• He went to Tarsus to bring Paul into Antioch to
  begin his service, subsequently, Barnabas
  disappears and Saul becomes the main pillar
• Barnabas also recruited Mark
• He was always looking to expand service
• Paul became a Bishop by the laying of hands of
  Barnabas
• Insisted on re-recruiting St. Mark even when he
  initially departed
• Insisted again to take Mark even when St. Paul
  decided not to he has a long vision on how Mark
  will be a great asset to the Church

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5-St. Mark

• Although he did not see him as a great help,
  however later on he used him as a co-servantGet
  Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to
  me for ministry 2Tim412
• St.Mark escaped twice, one during Crucifixion,
  second when he left Paul,But He became St Mark

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6-Apollos

• instructed in the way of the Lord and being
  fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately
  the things of the Lord
• He greatly helped those who had believed through
  grace
• He vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing
  from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.
• People tried to make a schismbetween Paul and
  apollos. St. Paul , however St. paul said I
  planted, Apollos watered so while he did not
  put him down, he refuted the schism
• I strongly urged him to come to you with the
  brethren, but he was quite unwilling to come at
  this time however, he will come when he has a
  convenient time. (1cor16)

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7-Timothy

• St.Paul cared for Timothy as a son as if he was
  his only.
• He took him and circumcised him to avoid offense
• 2 Epistles were sent to Timothy, 6 out of the
  other 12 epistles Timothy was with him. He was
  the closest to St. Paul
• After he left him in Ehesians he ordained him as
  a Bishop
• without ceasing I remember you in my prayers
  night and day, 4greatly desiring to see you,
  being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled
  with joy ( 2Tim1 3)
• He was the only one who was told the time of my
  departure is at hand 2 Tim 46

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8-Peter

• He confronted Peter in The Jerusalem Council
• However, Peter himself had the revelation in
  Kernilious baptism that he should not be looking
  to faces but accept every one. Hence, Peter
  defended St.Paul
• James (Bishop of Jerusalem) agreed in the council
• Paul was given the right hand of fellowship to
  serve the Gentiles and Peter the Jews.
• I withstood him to his face, because he was to
  be blamed Paul confronted Peter because He
  withdrew when he was eating with Gentiles.
• Paul even confronted the others with Peter
  played the hypocrite with him
• Peter in spite of all these confrontations
  speaks of St. Paul as full of blessings Paul,
  according to the wisdom given to him, has written
  to you

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9- Luke

• Historian, Physician, Greek education, became a
  close follower and co servant.
• Only Luke is with me 2 Tim 4
• St. Paul has close ties to the pillars of the
  apostles e.g Luke, Peter, Mark
• Luke wrote Acts and his gospel, It is thought
  that Luke was influenced in his writings with St.
  Paul
• Priest inaudibly prays during the Pauline reading
  Let us imitate him as he was following you

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10- Aquilla Priscilla

• The house that St. Paul used to find his comfort
  in.
• He used to share in their work as tent makers
• Their house was called a church

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