JOY IN COMMUNITY PHILIPPIANS 1 1 -11

JOY IN COMMUNITY PHILIPPIANS 1: 1 -11

PAUL & THE COMMUNITY IN CHRIST Philippians 1: 1 -2 (NASB) 1 Paul and Timothy, bond-servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, including the overseers and deacons: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1: 3 -5 (NASB) 3 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, 4 always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all, 5 in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now. THE COMMUNITY THAT IS IN CHRIST PARTICIPATES IN THE GOSPEL

If I am called to be a saint, if I am really expected to be so much like Jesus Christ that others will know at once and unmistakably that I am a Christian, then…I shall need all the help that I can possibly get. I know that I cannot climb the hill by myself; I shall need at every point the help, the encouragement, the understanding of those who have valiantly set themselves to climb it too. Holy communion will not be one extra certificate of respectability for particularly pious persons; it will be Esca Viatorum, the food of wayfaring men, without which I cannot cross the wilderness. Stephen Neil Christian Holiness

Philippians 1: 6 (NASB) 6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. THE COMMUNITY THAT IS IN CHRIST IS PERFECTED BY CHRIST

THE COMMUNITY THAT IS IN CHRIST ARE PARTAKERS OF GRACE Philippians 1: 7 -8 (NASB) 7 For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me. 8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Philippians 1: 9 -11 (NASB) 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; 11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. THE COMMUNITY THAT IS IN CHRIST PRODUCES THE FRUIT OF SALVATION