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Philippians chapter 2, verses 1 and 2.

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the spirit,

any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in

full accord and of one mind.

This is a pretty clear call, a unity in the church that we're seeing in Philippians

chapter 2 verses 1 and 2.

And if you keep reading on, pardon me, he's tempted to read this whole passage down to verse 11,

because the way Paul appeals to unity is not by saying,

you guys need to agree about every single thing you think.

Like, good luck with that. All kinds of people,

all kinds of Christians have all kinds of ideas about all kinds of different things,

opinions, preferences, even convictions that are not clearly spelled out in the Bible. But the

picture of unity here, being in full accord and of one mind, revolves around Jesus.

And you keep reading on, you see one of the most awesome pictures of Jesus anywhere in the Bible from Philippians chapter 2, verse 5 through 11 of his humanity and his deity and his love and his

sacrifice and humility and his exaltation. Jesus is the one who unites us in the church

and not just who he is, but he loves that's the picture there in

philippians two too did you hear it complete my joy by being of the same mind having the same

love what's that talking about it's talking about the love of jesus who laid down his life for us. And so, I want to encourage

you to think about your relationship specifically with other followers of Jesus, and maybe even

particularly with other followers of Jesus who have different thoughts than you do and different

opinions and preferences that you do, and even different convictions

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