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John Stott found on his many travels that contemporary models of Christian leadership were often shaped more by culture than by Christ. In stark contrast, he urges that our view be determined by our view of the church, not the other way round. Focusing on 1 Corinthians 1–4, he demonstrates the centrality of the theme of ‘power through weakness’. He explains the role of the Holy Spirit in God’s...

is not power (as you might think at first sight), but power through weakness, divine power through human weakness. Paul brings together in chapters 1 and 2 of 1 Corinthians three striking illustrations of the same principle. First, we see power through weakness in the gospel itself, for the weakness of the cross is the power of God (1:17–25, especially verses 18 and 14). Secondly, we see power through weakness in the Corinthian converts, for God had chosen weak people to shame the strong (1:26–31,
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