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The Apostle Paul On Winning People

1 Corinthians 9

Christian leadership according to Paul:

1. Live with and relate to the world. While doing this, do not become just like the world. Do this because the Gospel was made for the world.

2. Relate and speak to people in a way they will receive you.

3. Make yourself a servant to everyone so they may believe you care.

4. Discipline yourself so that you can live up to the standard you expect of others.

5. Win the cultural and ethnic leaders.

6. It is a sin to change the message. It is a sin to NOT change the method.

Mark 10:45 (Jesus came not to be served but to serve)

Genesis 12 (God commands Abram to move out into the world, but promises to serve him.)

If you do something nice for somebody...

it doesn't count if you tell people about it.

Love is its own reward. Don't cheapen it.

St Paul and Stoicism

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3142715?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Stoic Warriors and the Bible

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

-William Henley

1888

If -

If you can keep your head when all about you

  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

  But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

  Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

  And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

  If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

  And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

  And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

  And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

  To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

  Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

  Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

  If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

  With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

  And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

-Rudyard Kipling

1895