Better Together #3

Our Alaska Division theme for this program year is "Better Together" focussing on unity, supporting one another, and operating the body of the church God desires. Here are some devotional thoughts for your own consideration or use as a call to worship in your Corps this Holy season. Just my thoughts from my scripture meditation. Please use, change, alter as you see fit and meditate on the Word today.

For November 28, 2010

As we enter the holy season of Advent we remember that the word advent means “coming”. During this special time of year we focus on the coming of Christ and ultimately we remember His promise that He is coming again.

The Alaska Division program theme this year is “Better Together” and as we begin to focus on the advent “coming” of Jesus in the flesh as our Savior, we recall the words from Philippians chapter 2 verses 1-5.

Paul writes to the church and tells them, and us, that if we find encouragement from being united with Christ our Savior, and if we are sharing of the Holy Spirit, that the way to bring him joy would be by being like minded with a Christ-like love being one in mind and spirit. Today we remember that this letter was written to the church of Philippi and by God’s Spirit it is for us as the church today. We, in the same mindset of Christ, must look beyond ourselves with the goal of coming together to reach a world in need in the same way that Christ in perfect humility came to live among us, as our Immanuel.

Philippians 2 1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

As we remember the advent of Christ coming to live among us and show us the love of the Father, we know that it is God’s will for us a united church to be like Jesus that the world would see Jesus as the Savior of the world.

To show God’s love to the world we are “better together”.

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