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As he sits in a Roman prison, the Apostle Paul does not focus on the difficulties of his own situation when he writes to the Philippians. Rather, he is most interested in encouraging the Philippian church that he and his ministry team had founded on his second missionary journey. He overflows with joy as he urges his readers to maintain unity by looking to role models—himself, their brother...

mental disposition of the congregation. Brothers and sisters in Christ should not be at cross-purposes from each other; they need to unite in Christ and with each other in their thinking. The second need is to recover “the same love,” building on 1:9, where Paul prayed that their “love may abound more and more.” This overflowing love should produce unity of purpose, because love has a servant’s heart and continually gives, as Paul will state in the next two verses. When we have experienced the sacrificial
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