2023 Evangel Gathering - Friendship and Flourishing for Missions

D evotional 2 Christ’s Secret Weapon for Missions: Co-laborers Together, Philippians 1.27-28 Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis

What’s the one thing that keeps us moving forward? What do we need most of all, that keeps us strong? A partner in arms!! A friend who sticks closer than a kinfolk!

Proverbs 17.17 (ESV) – A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 18.24 (ESV) – A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Christ’s secret weapon for flourishing is a co-laborer in the faith, a friend with whom we fight side by side.

Philippians 1.27 (ESV) – Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, . . .

I. A Worthy Manner of Life, Phil. 1.27

A. Live worthy of the Gospel, v. 27a

B. Stand firm in one spirit, v. 27b

C. With one mind strive side by side for the Faith of the Gospel, v. 27c

1. Flourishing for mission

2. Friendship for mission

3. United together for mission’s sake

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