Paul and the Sea-Change in Scripture

“St Paul undertook three important missionary journeys. He was shipwrecked, imprisoned, and often a stranger in foreign lands. Some two thousand years later a religion professor and his wife undertook a 14-month yacht journey, touching land in eight countries, visiting every site where Paul stopped on his tumultuous missionary journeys. Buying an ageing Westerly 33 sight unseen, they repaired it and set off on a 3600 mile journey over two sailing seasons.”

Each summer since 2004, Dr. Stutzman and his wife Janet have been exploring the Roman Empire, Paul’s mission activity, and the book of Acts aboard their “research vessel” SailingActs, and leading study seminars on and around the Mediterranean Sea for seminary students and others.

 
Linford Stutzman
 

Dr. Linford Stutzman is professor emeritus at Eastern Mennonite University, and adjunct professor at Jerusalem University College, leading classes in the Mediterranean each summer aboard SailingActs.

The presentation includes

  • Land and Sea in Scripture

  • Mare Nostrum - Rome's domination of land and sea

  • Sea-features of Paul's life

  • The sea-workers aboard ships and in ports to whom Paul related

  • Paul's creative connections to seaworkers in the Mediterranean with the Good News of the Kingdom

  • Relevance for 21st Century followers of Jesus in our sea-like world

Presentation Details

When: 4 December 2020 19:45 GMT

Where: Zoom

Duration: 1.5-2 hours including Q&A

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