Leadership and Lifestyle

This Study Contributes To Debate About The Portraits Of Paul In Acts And His Epistles By Considering Paul''S Miletus Speech (Acts 20.18B-35) And Identifies And Compares Major Themes In Luke And Paul''S Views Of Christian Leadership. Comparisons With Jesus'' Speeches In Luke Show How Lukan The Speech Is And With 1 Thessalonians How Pauline It Is. The Speech Calls The Ephesian Elders To Service After Paul''S Departure To Jerusalem Focusing On: Faithful Fulfilment Of Leadership Responsibility; Suffering; Attitudes To Wealth And Work; And The Death Of Jesus. Paul Models Christian Leadership For The Elders. Parallels In Luke Highlight His View Of Christian Leadership - Modelled By Jesus And Taught To His Disciples And Modelled By Paul And Taught To The Elders. Study Of 1 Thessalonians Identifies A Remarkably Similar Portrait Of Christian Leadership. The Miletus Speech Is Close In Thought Presentation And Vocabulary To An Early Indubitably Pauline Letter.