As this second letter to the church at Corinth opens we find that Paul is a man in the midst of crisis- he was having great trouble in Asia, there was opposition to his authority in the Corinthian church as well as many we now deemed Paul untrustworthy because he failed to made good on a promise to visit them. But in the midst of all this crisis Paul conquered- and managed to write an encouraging epistle at the same time. What spiritual resources did Paul have that helped him become such a great example of crisis management?
