Countercultural life

This countercultural, cruciform (holy) love pays special attention to the weaker members of the community ([I Cor] 11:17-34; 12:14-26) and special honor to apostles who exhibit Christlike power-in-weakness (4:1-13), and it has a counterintuitive commitment to absorbing injustice rather than inflicting it (6:1-11). Such cruciform holiness stands in marked contrast to the dominant Roman cultural values of promoting the self by seeking honor and of honoring the powerful. Paul's primary goal is to turn a charismatic community into a cruciform and therefore truly holy community, one in which all believers are in proper relationship to one another and to God the Father, Christ the Lord, and the Holy Spirit—the triune God at work among them. This is not a call to something new and different from Paul's earlier message or the Corinthians' experience, but rather a summons to embody the washing, justification, and sanctification (1 Cor 6:11) that God's grace has already inaugurated. That is to say, holiness, or sanctification, is not an addition to justification but its actualization.—Inhabiting the Cruciform God, pp. 110-111

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He might have added it is still countercultural and radical—and impossible without God.
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