Movement 3

Rebels, The Righteous, and Risk-Takers: Three Movements of the Spiritual Journey

Recorded at the City Church Retreat 2009

Movement #3
The Father – from Safety to Sacrifice

Philip. 2:1-11, NRSV
1If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, 2make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. 5Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 
6who, though he was in the form of God,
 did not regard equality with God
 as something to be exploited, 
7but emptied himself,
 taking the form of a slave,
 being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form, 
8he humbled himself
 and became obedient to the point of death—
 even death on a cross. 
9Therefore God also highly exalted him
 and gave him the name
 that is above every name, 
10so that at the name of Jesus
 every knee should bend,
 in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 
11and every tongue should confess
 that Jesus Christ is Lord,
 to the glory of God the Father.