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Paul for Everyone: The Prison Letters is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul wrote the letters while in prison facing possible death, but their passion and energy are undimmed. They reveal Paul’s longing to see young churches grow in faith and understanding, rooted in Jesus himself, and to see this faith worked out in practice—in one case, through the rehabilitation of a runaway slave. Wright’s stimulating comments are combined with his own translation of the Bible...

variations in styles of worship. There are also personality cults, clashes over leadership style, arguments on issues of moral behaviour, cultural politics, and so on. How can we even begin to think that it might be possible to live the way Paul indicates here—thinking the same, loving each other completely, regarding everyone else (and their opinions!) as superior to you and your own? The answer must be that everyone must be focused on something other than themselves; and that something is Jesus
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