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Power in Weakness: Paul’s Transformed Vision for Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Envisioning cruciform community built on resurrection hope. After Paul’s encounter with the risen Christ on the road to Damascus, he turned from coercion and violence to a ministry centered on the hope of Christ’s resurrection. In earthly terms, Paul had traded power for weakness. But—as he explained in his subsequent letters—this “weakness” was actually the key to flourishing community that is...

cosmic powers. In Christ, God has broken their enslaving grip over creation and has begun to free his world from their malignant influence. At the future day of Christ, God will complete this work and fully restore creation, but the church is the initial phase of that work. The church, for Paul, is the presence of God in Christ by the Spirit, who delivers to the church the same power whereby God raised Jesus from the dead. These communities are outbreaks of the future kingdom of God, sites of resurrection
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