“If we would ever qualify to bring blessing to one needy life, it is going to require a spiritual experience of suffering”

In his second letter to the Corinthian church, the Apostle Paul speaks from his heart about what it means to be a minister of the gospel. He reveals something of what it has cost him and some of the experiences that have brought him great joy.

As he opens up this grand epistle, Alan Redpath applies Paul’s words to the life of every Christian. Readers will see how God can turn buffetings into blessings. As they read about God’s grace being greater than their weakness, they will appreciate the abundance of that grace. “The fountain of God’s grace is always pouring itself out with no limitation on heaven’s side at all … When God gives grace, he does not reluctantly open a little finger… God’s hands are nail-pierced hands and they are wide open.”

Dr. Redpath’s accurate, warm paraphrase of Paul’s words reveals the author‘s own understanding of and sympathetic response to Paul’s experience and makes his words live today for every believer in Christ.