Scripture Text: Philippians 2:1-11

Scripture Text: Philippians 2:1-11

Quotes for Reflection

N.T. Wright, Philippians for Everyone

The eternal son of God, the one who became human in and as Jesus of Nazareth, regarded his equality with God as committing him to the course he took: of becoming human, of becoming Israel’s anointed representative, of dying under the weight of the world’s evil. This is what it meant to be equal with God. As you look at the incarnate son of God dying on the cross the most powerful thought you should think is: this is the true meaning of who God is. He is the God of self-giving love.

Athanasius, On the Incarnation

The body of the Word, then, being a real human body, in spite of its having been uniquely f ...