other cities weren’t. And it was important, therefore, in Philippi, to be politically correct, which meant worshipping the emperor as if he were a god. Paul remembered that his Christian friends in Philippi were willing to pay the price for not doing that. He’ll say a little later in his letter, “You’re going through some of the same stuff I had to go through; you’re suffering some of the same things I did because of your Christian faith” (Phil. 1:28–30). Their tangible, sustained partnership showed