Advent // Songs of Christmas: Humility, Phil 2:1-11

Advent Week One// "The Songs of Christmas" // Phil 2:1-11

This week, as we transition from Acts to “Songs of Christmas,” we’re looking at a song that Paul recounted to the very church he planted in Acts 16. This church in Philippi is the healthiest of all the NT churches, and yet Paul is sending this letter to deal with their fighting.

The symptom of the problem is self-interest. The root of the problem is vein conceit. The solution is humility and it's the key for us today... but the only way to build humility in yourself is to actually let go of it; the moment you try to build it in yourself you will find yourself enacting the opposite. The only way to build a mindset of humility, “the attitude of Christ,” is to let go of it and look to Someone Else for it. This is why this passage isn’t just about abstract theology; it’s a hymn, it’s something that needs to be recited, remembered, celebrated––to be sung.

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