Craig Bloomberg

Congregational Evangelism in Philippians

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Careful readers of Paul's letters are often surprised to find no explicit, unambiguous commands to entire congregations to be involved in mission. Explanations of this phenomenon have usually not done justice to the large number of implicit commands scattered throughout these epistles and particularly in Philippians. Keown builds on several recent works that have begun to rectify this situation and provides the most detailed exegetical analysis yet of the call for the entire Philippian congregation to proclaim the gospel verbally whenever they can. While not every piece of evidence Keown marshals proves equally persuasive, overall his case is a highly convincing one.”