Cornerstone URC

Menu
Menu
×

CALLING FOR CHURCH UNITY IN THE PHILIPPIAN CHURCH

CALLING FOR CHURCH UNITY IN THE PHILIPPIAN CHURCH

April 8, 2018

Philippians 1:27 – 2:11

27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 
28 and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God.
29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but alsosuffer for his sake, 
30 engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.

Christ’s Example of Humility

1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, anyaffection and sympathy, 
2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 
3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 
4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 
7 but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself bybecoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 
9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.