Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to tech a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized – whoever. I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ – but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I’ve become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all this because of the Message. I didn’t just want to talk about it; I want to be in on it! (I Corinthians 9:19-23, The Message)

I. Let me introduce myself

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