When we follow Jesus in our daily life we are faced with many challenges. Rising up to meet those challenges in accordance with his grace means that we will be making an impact changing the world around us. Instead of letting the world take its own course we are leading it in His name. Rising up to meet these challenges gives us a great opportunity to depend more on Jesus. This is something St. Paul definitely understood and embodied in his life. This is Part 2 in our series “In The Pattern Of Paul – Insights Into Leadership”.

The life of St. Paul provides Christians with a wonderful example of what it means to lead in Jesus Christ. In fact St. Paul had to face many of the same challenges we do. In my book, Coached by Paul the Apostle, I try to lay out many of these insights into leadership and in this series of podcasts I try and develop those insights in greater depth starting with this particular session where I develop the link between authority and freedom. This follows Chapter 1 of my book.

As we bring this series of letters from St. Francis to a close I thought it fitting to finish with some letters in which the Saint references his own soul. What were the spiritual lessons that he himself learned on his journey as a Christian engaged in the affairs of the world? By looking at the themes that he evokes in letters about himself we can find lessons that we can apply to ourselves in our situations as leaders today. We can learn from him something of the love of God.