Love Serves, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this program, Chip reveals five ways we typically measure greatness. But as with any scale, we always want to know whether the scale is accurate. From Philippians, Chapter 2, Chip explains how true greatness is achieved.
The quest for greatness = UNIVERSAL!
How do we measure greatness?
- Power = Who and what we control
- Possessions = What and how much we own
- Position = Our rank in the pecking order
- Prestige = Who and how many “look up” to us
- Productivity = What and how much we accomplish
How do we obtain greatness?
- Two pathways to greatness:
- ASCENDING
- DESCENDING
- True greatness defined = Philippians 2:3-4
How do you experience true greatness?
- One word = HUMILITY
- Humility is the channel through which the supernatural power of God’s love flows to heal our deepest hurts and restore our most important relationships.
Following Jesus into greatness - How to be authentically humble:
- Humility flows from a specific “mindset”. -Philippians 2:5
- We achieve true greatness when we embrace Christ’s “mindset” toward power and possessions. -Philippians 2:6
- We become truly great when we embrace Christ’s “mindset” toward position and prestige. -Philippians 2:7
- We become truly great when we embrace Christ’s “mindset” toward productivity. -Philippians 2:8
- We experience the REWARD of true greatness when we follow Christ’s example of servanthood. -Philippians 2:9-11
Conclusion: God wants you to be great!
- The acid test of greatness = LOVE
- The road to greatness = HUMILITY
- The opportunity for greatness = SERVING
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.6 | Deep in the heart of every human being is a desire to be great. |
| 0:19.0 | We're made in the image of God. |
| 0:20.5 | We want to be and do something |
| 0:22.6 | significant. Here's the question. What's the path? How do you get there? Today we'll learn |
| 0:29.4 | from the Apostle Paul how to become great in God's eyes. Stay with me. Welcome to Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Dave Drewie, and today we're continuing our series Choosing Love by revealing two distinct |
| 0:44.8 | pathways to greatness. |
| 0:46.3 | One is the world's way, ascending through power, possessions, and productivity. |
| 0:51.3 | The other is Jesus' way, descending through humility and service. Today, Chip |
| 0:56.9 | shows us why the greatest people you'll ever know aren't measured by fame or fortune, but by how well |
| 1:03.1 | they love. So if you have your Bible with you, go ahead and open to Philippians chapter 2, looking |
| 1:08.4 | in verse 5. Here's Chip Ingram with today's message titled |
| 1:12.3 | Love Serves. We tend to think about love as, you know, a romantic feeling or an emotion, |
| 1:18.7 | and I'm all for those. But the kind of love we're talking about requires a choice. And there's |
| 1:25.0 | some things that work against us being loving people. And they're not necessarily |
| 1:29.2 | bad, but they can distract us. And I'd like you to think just right now, when was the first time |
| 1:34.2 | just as back far as you can go when you really thought to yourself, I want to be great at something? |
| 1:41.0 | See, here's what I want you to know. Open your notes. The quest for greatness is universal. |
| 1:47.5 | Everybody wants to be great. |
| 1:49.6 | Everyone wants to be successful, esteemed, valued, admired, significant, known, appreciated, accomplished, right? |
| 1:58.0 | We want to look our best, do our best. |
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