Michael Thompson writes in his booklet “The New Perspective on Paul” that ‘authentic Christianity is fundamentally corporate’. 

Over the past several decades, with the aid of media technologies, some Christian pastors have attained a celebrity status. We see this not only with the televangelists of the 1970s and 1980s, but even more recently we see that some Christian pastors have gained followers and advocates, especially through the publication of books and through their use of the Internet. The celebrity pastors and their advocates form quarreling factions of self-declared believers in Jesus the Christ.

The first time I ever heard anyone trying to describe the ‘New Perspective on Paul’, ‘covenantal nomism’, and the groundbreaking work of Sanders, Dunn and Wright in this respect, my immediate question was "And where does Romans 7 fit in?" The quick reply from the front was "With difficulty!" But now I need some urgent help.