Philippians 1:27
Big Idea: Living worthy means exhibiting unity and embracing Kingdom responsibility
“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.”
- Psalm 127:1
Members Of God’s Family Must Be:
1) United In Heart (v. 27)
God’s Family = Unity in the midst of diversity (adapted from Tim Keller)
“Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
- Matthew 6:33
“I ask … that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”
– John 17:20-23
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
- Galatians 2:20
2) United On Mission (v. 27)