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Did Paul set a great pattern for evangelising the gentiles?

Yes. His discourse at Athens is a great model for today’s evangelists.

He first did due diligence to understand the people and their religion by visiting their places of worship and discussing with them daily at the marketplace. Though he felt angry over their idolatrous lot, he did not offend them by speaking ill against those gods. Instead, he did personal evangelism, sharing the gospel of Jesus and His resurrection. As the people were familiar with gods and goddesses, and since “resurrection” was a strange thing which was not even in their vocabulary, they might have thought that Resurrection was the female consort of Jesus. (He seemed to do the same in Ephesus too).

When the Athenians took him to the Areopagus – the stage on a hill named after Mars, meant for public discourses by knowledgeable people to the searchers of new philosophies, Paul preached a sermon that has remained one of the best over the centuries.
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