Paul had the gift for busting through theology and cutting right to the essentials, didn't he?
And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
- 1 Corinthians 15:41
How can it be that you, my king, would die for me? -Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. - But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. - Whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.