What was Paul's method — was he a reformer, politician, or moralist?
Paul’s method was not crusading, great politics, or moralism. He was sent to the Gentiles with a new revelation, not based on Judaism, the Law, or the Old Testament. By simply preaching the Gospel of the grace of God, he turned the Roman Empire upside down.
Les teaches that Paul hated anything associated with the Christ of Calvary and thought he was destroying Judaism. But God in grace saved him on the road to Damascus and immediately gave instructions that he would go to the Gentiles with a whole new format—not based on Judaism, the Law, or the Old Testament, but on a whole new revelation of new truths never mooted before. Among pagan Gentiles, confronted with abject immorality, Paul turned the Roman Empire upside down by simply preaching the Gospel. He wasn’t a crusader, a great politician, or a great moralist; he preached the Gospel of the grace of God. Later, imprisoned because of his apostleship, he writes these next letters as an apostle by the will of God to the saints, the believer, the Christian.