What Is “Christian” Power? The most elegantly simple description of power I know is this: power is the capacity to influence. As author Richard Gula writes: [Power] is what enables us to make things happen or not. In this sense, everyone has power, but we do not all have it to the same degree. Power as influence is always relative to our resources. One of the most important self-examinations we can do is to name our sources of power, for we are most at risk of ethical misconduct when we minimize or ignore our power.1
