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, 113). <\/p>\n \u201cIt shall not be so with you,\u201d Jesus would say. <\/p>\n
Only it is: Christian leadership is today so thoroughly infused with a Corinthian ethos that we can hardly imagine an alternative. <\/p>\n
Yet the alternative is right there on the page, in the second chapter of Philippians, where Paul, after warning against political ambition, tells the Philippians to take on the self-humbling mindset of Christ. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Corinthians did not unfortunately slip into factions. When two ancient men competed for power, Dio Chrysostom says, \u201cof necessity they court the favor of everyone, even those who are ever so far beneath them.\u201d Creating factions was the main strategy of political action, the tactic of leadership. Cultivating factions was the key to first-century […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,45,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-nt-1-corinthians","category-bible-nt-philippians","category-theology-ecclesiology"],"yoast_head":"\n
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