It will be increasingly clear by this point that this book is not just about Paul, appropriating him in a historical mode. It has been written for Christian leaders who live in the twenty-first century. So to be useful to them it needs to articulate where we also need to go beyond Paul. Here three interpretative techniques will be especially useful. First, to bring Paul into a constructive conversation with modern churches, we will need to grasp the key parts of his thinking and then