The Main Thing

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menu_book Philippians 1:12-26 , 
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The Gospel, the basic message of Christianity, tells us that because God gave HIS heart IN Jesus Christ – out of that ultimate cost and vulnerability came LIFE and forgiveness and friendship. And when we receive that (by faith) it instills the security we need to be able to RISK and become
vulnerable with others. God’s sacrifice enables ours!

Today we see how that played out for the writer of this amazing letter. He was writing from a jail cell …and yet he was astoundingly free. The apostle Paul was free to be honest with people, to risk, to endure heart ache and betrayal and to SOMEHOW maintain this amazingly resilient and even joyous outlook. His approach is somehow utterly realistic (no denial or fakeness) and yet real security and peace and JOY (which is a huge theme to look for in this letter).

Paul’s able to “keep the main thing the main thing” (as we say) and that’s the secret (later he uses that word, Ch. 4) it’s the secret that sustains him.Let’s look at how he does it:
1) Two Things Which Cannot Be the Main Thing
2)The One Thing That MUST Be and
3) Some of the Results When This IS the FOCUS

The Joy of Good News Partners

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calendar_today May 14, 2014
menu_book Philippians 1:1-11 , 

The Main Thing

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calendar_today May 19, 2014
menu_book Philippians 1:12-26 , 

The Other Spiritual Gift

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calendar_today May 25, 2014
menu_book Philippians 1:12-30 , 

More Important Than Yourself

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calendar_today May 31, 2014
menu_book Philippians 2:1-5 , 

The Kenosis Model

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calendar_today June 15, 2014
menu_book Philippians 2:1-11 , 

Inadequacy of Accountability

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calendar_today July 3, 2014
menu_book Philippians 2:12-18 , 

Celebrity Slaves

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calendar_today July 19, 2014
menu_book Philippians 2:19-30 , 

My Deadly Success

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calendar_today July 20, 2014
menu_book Philippians 3:1-11 , 

I Press On

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calendar_today July 30, 2014
menu_book Philippians 3:7-21 , 

Stress and the Gospel

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calendar_today August 2, 2014
menu_book Philippians 4:1-13 , 

On Giving and Receiving

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calendar_today August 17, 2014
menu_book Philippians 4:8-23 ,