Let me show you my earliest role models. They might surprise you. Even more surprising is that God used these role models for me to become a staunch defender of God's character to a world that had been nothing but lied to about Him.

Paul tells us seven times in his letters to become imitators of him. The irony is that I never set out to imitate Paul. And yet, the older I got, the more it dawned on me that I had been gifted by God with the spirit, the determination, and the passion of that man.

He was a slave of Christ—and so am I.