Confessions of St.Patrick

Kelvin Kublall Feb, 4/2013 History of Christianity Confessions of St. Patrick St. Patricks story is a quite dramatized one, it speaks more or less the great things he has passed through. St. Patrick was one of the first and most influential missionaries to Ireland, bravely entering this superstitious and violent country to acquire the healing balm of the gospel. Firstly He was born in Great Britain nearing the end of the fourth century. He was the son of Calpornius, who was a deacon and decurion.Patrick was of a noble birth, he was a Roman citizen. At about the near age of 16 he was captured by barbaric Irish pirates and taken to Ireland where he served as a slave tending to the sheep. During his Shepard metre, he was converted to the Lord and then after 6 years, divinity fudge gave him a dream to leave Ireland for his ship awaits. divinity fudge made St. Patrick travel two hundred miles to where idol told him the ship would be and boarded it and set sails back to his homeland in Britain.Now while among his family, he had another dream, this time a voice spoke to him telling him to return to Ireland. During this time an outlined map of Ireland was identified with the timbre of foclut near the western sea. Here a childhood confession he made before he became a deacon returned to haunt him. And later there was many boasting of bringing religion to the Irish. It spoke on how they never knew God and cherished idols. Then in paragraph 42 he baptizes a beautiful Irish princess in Gods name.Then he closes his confessions by saying that those who believe in the faith of God and fear him and do only what is pleasing in His sight will glorify Gods name eternally. For those were his confessions before he died. It seems that the new church leadership did not shargon their predecessors approval of Patricks mission, particularly his emphasis on reaching the lost rather than shepherding the existing flock. The bishops felt Patricks teams were pass too much time with the pagans and not enough time tending to their own spiritual puff up being.Patrick quoted Mathew 28, explaining that Jesus had commanded his disciples to go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation, baptizing the nations and teaching them to obey everything he had commanded. By most accounts Patricks efforts were successful. By the end of Patricks approximately 30 years of ministry in Ireland, the perform was blossoming and a previously violent, pagan land was becoming much more peaceful and virtuous.Patricks theology also freed him to build a bridge to the Celtic coating by celebrating and emphasizing the aspects of that culture that he found good and righteous. The key to Patricks approach, was his ability to tell the Celtic story demote than the Celts could. He offered them a more complete explanation of their history, showing how it finds its fulfillment in Jesus. Likewise we are today when doing missionary evangelism, we should conduct proper surveys of the population and know our grow before entering. Knowing our roots simply means to be grounded in the faith of Jesus.