...beautiful passage from the letter to the Philippians, summarizes the meaning of this holiest week. "Christ Jesus who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave,...

...and make the best use of the freedom we have been given. In Philippians, Paul holds up the example of Jesus, "who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave,...

...'pre-cxistcnce,' it might be understood along the following lines: "Let the same mind be in you that was (like Moses, who evidently had the status of "God" in terms of his representation of God before the...

...and make the best use of the freedom we have been given. In Philippians. Paul holds up the example of Jesus, "who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave,...

...recognition. If we're in any doubt about how serious this claim was, we can simply look at Philippians 2:5-11: "Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave....

...into the Father's heart. Philippians 2:5-1 1 reads: "Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of...himself , taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death,...

...at Philippi to imitate God's compassionate seeing: "Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of...himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men" (Philippians 1:5-7, RSV). And to the Corinthian church Paul writes, "for our sake...

...interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this in mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of...himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death,...

...own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of...himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death,...

...Epistle to the Philippians, he seems to answer the question "Who is the Christ?" very differently: "Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God,...himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death,...