Missio Colonia | Kevin and Kathi in Cologne, Germany

"St. Paul expected his hearers to be moved. He so believed in his preaching that he knew that it was 'the power of God unto salvation.' This expectation is a very real part of the presentation of the gospel. It is a form of faith. A mere preaching which is not accompanied by the expectation of faith, is not a true preaching of the Gospel, because faith is part of the gospel. Simply to scatter the seed, with a sort of vague hope that some of it may come up somewhere, is not preaching the gospel...St. Paul expected to make converts, but others expected it also. This accounts for the opposition which his preaching created. People were afraid of his preaching, and fear is a form of expectation: it is a form of faith...St. Paul did not scatter seed, he planted. He so dealt with his hearers that he brought them speedily and directly to a point of decision, and then he demanded...they make a choice and act on their choice."
- Roland Allen, Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours? (1912): 99-100.