Paul's Humble Posture: Preacher as Fellow Receiver

When Paul addresses the synagogue at Antioch of Pisidia, he performs an act of profound humility that becomes his method of persuasion. He does not stand above his audience as one who possesses the message of salvation and dispenses it downward. Instead, he says: 'to us is the word of this salvation sent'—classifying himself and Barnabas among the receivers of the message, not its exclusive custodians.…