St. Paul is my favorite author, Bible character, church planter, saint and leader. A few reasons why.
1. His conversion experience teaches that the validity of conversion is found in the change of the person.
2. He was willing to stand up for what was right even if it went against popular Christian thought.
3. He wrote pastoral letters in a time when it would have been easier to sulk over his situation.
4. He knew what he was talking about yet was gentle and firm.
5. He was more concerned that Christ was proclaimed than he was with who was proclaiming Him.
There are many things I love about St. Paul. I think he may have been the first ecumenist but he wasn't one because it was easy to do. He knew the nature of God as revealed in the Law and as He was revealing Himself to the early church.
