Philippians 2:12-18
October 7, 2018
preached by Kārlis Kleinhofs-Prūsis & Slavic Strashnov
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.”

~Maya Angelou (1928-2014), poet and activist

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

~Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16^th president of the United States

“Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.”

~John Wooden (1910-2010), famed basketball coach

“A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.”

~William Arthur Ward (1921-1994), American inspirational writer

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.”

~Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), famed writer and speaker

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”

~Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), American writer and journalist

“The one true God consists, through and through, of self-giving love.”

~N.T. Wright, scholar and retired Anglican bishop

“What determines our brotherhood…consists solely in what Christ has done to both of us…. The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. We have one another only through Christ, but through Christ we do have one another, wholly, for eternity.”

“He who loves his dream of a community more than Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.”

~Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) pastor-theologian executed by the Nazis

Sermon Passage

Philippians 2:12-18 (ESV)

¹² Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, ¹³ for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

¹⁴ Do all things without grumbling or disputing, ¹⁵ that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. ¹⁷ Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. ¹⁸ Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.