Most leaders motivate others by boasting of their accomplishments. They talk about past goals they have achieved, they reflect on how effective they were at leading others to meet those goals, they praise others for their efforts, they explain the virtue of their future goals, and they repeat the message over and over again to motivate their teams. But what if your leader only spoke of his failures and sufferings? What would you think of him? How much confidence would you have in his leadership? What if he kept repeating his message of failure? Would you remain loyal to him? Would you follow his instructions? Richard and Fr. Marc discuss 2 Corinthians 7:1-8.
(Episode 131; 2 Corinthians 7:1-8); “Super Power Cool Dude” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http:// creativecommons .org/ licenses /by/3.0/)
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Not knowing Greek, I would not have caught the nuance between confidence (with faith) and boldness as a translation in verse 4. Glory be to God who gives us time to study Scripture.
Even if you do not know the original languages, just looking at the original text with a dictionary in hand is really helpful.