Thursday, 05 March 2009

• Where we are gathering and some Philippians stuff

  
  As many of you know, the building we have been meeting in has been closed down until some major repairs can be done.  Faith Reformed has made sure we've had a place to meet as we've been waiting to hear how long it will take and at this point it looks like that building will be out of use until at least early fall.  Again, Faith Reformed has been very generous and will allow us to meet in their Crossings campus until the building is repaired.  This is where we met last Sunday.  Click HERE for directions.  The building is located right behind Borders Bookstore in The Crossings shopping center (Wal-mart). 

  This Sunday we will continue or series in Philippians looking at chapter 1:12-14.

  Last week we looked at 1:9-11.  This is Paul's prayer for his friends in Philippi.

  He prays that their love, a God kind of love, will abound, overflow, spill over..again and again.  Our love never reaches the point of being full.  We never achieve it.  It just keeps growing and growing. 

  Paul wants their love is overflow in "knowledge and understanding".  We often speak of truth and love.  Paul's prayer is that their love grows but in an way that they are able to love in hard situations.  When the situation is grey.  When the choices aren't clear.  How many of us have been hurt by someone who spoke the truth but with out any love?  How many of us have been loved only to find out it wasn't true?  Paul's desire is that their love is a true kind of love, formed in truth and understanding.  That they won't just know the right answers but the right response. 

  All of this so that their actions can be found "pure and blameless".  A kind of love that knows not the good thing, but the best thing.  A love that is right.  This kind of love can be exposed in the light.  There is no need to hide it.  How many have used love as an excuse to do the wrong thing?  A husband leaves his family because he "loves" someone else he met at work.  How can love be wrong right?  The kind of love Paul prays for the Philippians is pure and never causes another injury. 

  For this is the "fruit of salvation that comes from Christ" and it is to "bring glory and praise to God".

  May this kind of love overflow in you.

   

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