Where In The Bible Will I Find:

Where Paul Found The Majority Of His Converts?

The Bible does not reveal all the activities of all the apostles, therefore it is, not possible to know just which apostle was most successful in immersing converts into Christ. On the birthday of the church, it is recorded that "Peter, standing up with the eleven…”  (Acts 2:14), preached, and about three thousand souls were immersed into Christ.

Then, in Acts 4:4, Peter and John preached and about five thousand heard them and believed. During the missionary journeys of Paul, it is very possible, if records had been kept of all the converts that were baptized by his party, it could exceed those of all the other apostles. But, neither of them were trying to out-do the others, all of them had the same commandment, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost…He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned" (Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:16).

Paul was very successful, because he was a free Roman - allowing him more privileges than one not of Roman birth. Too, he was the apostle to the Gentiles (Acts 9:15). In most cases, these Gentiles were Jew proselytes, and attended services in the synagogues on the Jewish Sabbaths. Paul, knowing this, planned his preaching schedules on that day, because this is where he would be able to find the most people gathered at one time. It was never his intentions to attend a Jewish worship, because as a Christian, he could not worship Christ acceptably in a Jewish worship on a Jewish Sabbath day.

He used the occasion only to preach Jesus to the largest crowd he could find. This became a custom of his and so it is recorded, "Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures" (Acts 17:2). He certainly could not be participating in a worship service while "reasoning" with the Jews who did not accept Christ. His only purpose in entering a Jewish synagogue on the Jewish Sabbath was to preach Jesus to them.

It would be the same today, if a gospel preacher had the opportunity to preach the Gospel to a Sabbath keeping group, which day of the week would he go, on a Monday, Thursday, Sunday or when? Of course, if he went on any of these days he would not find any people there. He would, like Paul, go on Saturday, the day in which all the Sabbath keepers would be present. In most cases, Paul preached in the synagogues of the Jews on their Sabbath, because of the large audience he had to preach to.

When the Bible records the day in which he assembled with the saints to worship by partaking of the Lord's Supper, we find that it was on the first day of the week - The Lord's Day (Acts 20:7). Christians do not meet on the Jewish Sabbath for worship: For in doing so, they would be severed from God, and fall from grace (Gal. 5:4).