"Efrain Agosto provides a rich and textured study of religious leadership as exercised by Jesus and the apostle Paul. The study is not only exegetically thorough, it provides an implicit challenge to contemporary religious leaders to rethink and reform our own roles. In the last chapter, Agosto makes that challenge explicit in ways that are clear, helpful, and appropriately demanding. A fine book for those who provide leadership to religious communities and to those who teach those leaders."

Efrain Agosto is professor of New Testament and director of Programa de Ministerios Hispanos at Hartford Seminary and has directed the urban ministries program for Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.