Downward Mobility
Rachel Held Evans once wrote that the Table is the great equalizer — the place where we stop performing and start belonging. Philippians 2:3-4 invites...
This is tradition perspectives on humility, drawing on Philippians 2:3-4.
Rachel Held Evans once wrote that the Table is the great equalizer — the place where we stop performing and start belonging. Philippians 2:3-4 invites us into that same downward mobility: "Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others."…
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