Apostle Paul's Letter To The Corinthians

Paul Paul was one of the greatest leaders of all time as he exerted incomparable influence on the lives of countless people. The book of Acts and his epistles reveal that Paul possessed many outstanding characteristics of Christian leadership. In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul influenced the Corinthians: "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ" (I Cor. 11:1). Although the Apostle Paul wore many hats, he was a leader above all, and he never lacked followers (Sanders, 1999). From a fugitive slave to the officials at Caesar's Court, people from diverse backgrounds and social classes followed him. No one in the history of the church can be compared to him except our Lord Jesus. The Apostle Paul had many talents.
By crafting solutions to bring people and resources together across national, cultural, and organizational boundaries" (Cabrera and Unruh, 2012. p. 12), Paul delivered a consistent message that was reliant on others to assist in reaching a greater population. People are the primary subject of ideological analysis (Robbins, 1996) and communicating with people was the main purpose of Paul's travels. The people encounters provide dialogue and disagreement for ideological analysis regarding the biases, opinions, and preferences between the participants. These encounters ranged from amiable gatherings in the synagogues to hostile confrontations with an angry mob or disputing the words of the sorcerer Bar-Jesus. Today’s leaders could learn from Paul, because he had uncompromising ethics with deep humility, and demonstrated it when he stated, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win over as he adapted to the various cultural customs and traditions in order to convert and win over citizens for
Leaders articulate a vision that emphasizes values shared by leader and followers (Jacobsen & House, 2001) and infuse seemingly disconnected organizational activities with those shared values (Shamir & Howell, 1999), which guides behaviors of followers (Tsai et al., 2009). Leaders are most effective when follower self-concepts and values are the same with the values espoused by the leader (Lord & Brown, 2001). The shared sense of values and culture stems in part from the leader acting to transform followers personal values. Leader–follower value congruence occurs when as a result of the leader acting to influence the values of followers, and from the leader’s purposeful attempts to appeal to existing follower values and culture. Leaders are expected to be better than other leaders at shaping the values of others, and also at tailoring their messages to tap into or prime pre-existing values and culture of followers and potential followers (Brown & Trevino,