THEME: BECOMING BY BEHOLDING - Cultivating A Community of Christ-Centered Worshipers (5)

2023 THEME: BECOMING BY BEHOLDING - Cultivating A Community of Christ-Centered Worshipers

CURRENT SERIES:

“Put Some Respect On My Name: CHRIST IS OUR UNIFIER

I. Unifier of Our PURPOSE: Philippians 2:5-8

Philippians 2:5 ESV

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Philippians 2:6 ESV

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Philippians 2:7 ESV

but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Philippians 2:8 ESV

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

II. Unified of Our PASSION: Philippians 2:1-2

Philippians 2:1 ESV

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

Philippians 2:2 ESV

complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Cultivate these passions

BY LOnging for Christ and killing competing passions

TURN TO COLOSSIANS 3-

Colossians 3:1 ESV

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:2 ESV

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Colossians 3:3 ESV

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Colossians 3:4 ESV

When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Colossians 3:5 ESV

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

III. Unified of Our PERSPECTIVE: : Philippians 2:3-4

Philippians 2:3–4 ESV

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

I can’t get there without others

CHURCH MEETING POINTS

Resurrection

Way, truth, life

The true vine