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principle of reversal in a homiletical context please see Ronald J. Sider and Michael A. King, Preaching about Life in a Threatening World . Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1987. 10 See Tertullian in Against Marcion iv 8 (http://www.newadvent.org/ fathers/03124.htm) on the negative ways in which Nazarenes was used, and Julian quoted in Gregory of Nazianus, Oratation 4 (http://www.tertullian.org/ fathers/gregory_nazianzen_2_oration4.htm). 11 George Barna, Revolution . Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005, pp. 36-37.

12 Keith Phillips, Out of Ashes . Los Angeles: World Impact Press, 1996, p. 131.

13 Jacques Ellul, The Ethics of Freedom . Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976), pp. 104-105.

14 J. A. Motyer Life Application Bible Commentary , Ephesians . (Electronic edition).

15 TUMI has an abundance of practical, affordable, and helpful aids to encourage you to form some good devotional and study habits in your spiritual formation as a person, a family, a small group, or even a church. For more information visit www.tumi.org/resources .

16 C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity , p. 188.

17 The IVP New Testament Commentary Series , (electronic edition) Ephesians .

18 Please check the appendix section of this book to engage various kinds of graphics I have created over the years to help emerging leaders know its primacy in Christian leadership development. In my view, this principle is critical to discovering the core of biblical leadership, as well as a solid, exegetically sound way to make sense of what it means. 19 David Bennett, Metaphors of Ministry . Eugene, OR: Wiph and Stock Publishers, 2004, p. 136.

20 Ibid, p. 62.

21 Paul Tripp. “Ambassadors.” https://www.paultripp.com/articles/posts/ ambassadors-for-christ

22 For a one page at-a-glance graphic of these principles, please see the Appendix Understanding Leadership as Representation: The Six Stages of Formal Proxy .