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PHILIPPIANS: Connected Lives and One Lord - Dr. Jim Bradford, October 18, 2026

PHILIPPIANS: Connected Lives and One Lord - Dr. Jim Bradford, October 18, 2026

PHILIPPIANS: Connected Lives and One Lord - Dr. Jim Bradford, October 18, 2026

Locations & Times

Central Assembly

1301 N Boonville Ave, Springfield, MO 65802, USA

Sunday 9:00 AM

Sunday 10:45 AM

OUR CONNECTIONS START WITH JESUS, NOT US . . .

* if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ…

* if any comfort from his love…

* if any common sharing in the Spirit…

* if any tenderness and compassion…

(Philippians 2:1)
THEN COMES THE CONNECTION CALL . . .
THEN COMES THE CONNECTION CALL . . .

> Less self-promotion and more humility
Tony Campolo, Who Switched the Price Tags?
“Children, you are going to die! One of these days the hearse is going to take you to the cemetery, drop you in a hole and everyone”s going back to the church to eat potato salad. When you were born, you were crying and everyone else was happy. Here is the question, “˜When you die, will you be the only happy one with everyone else crying?” The answer depends upon whether you lived to get titles or testimonies.”
THEN COMES THE CONNECTION CALL . . .

> Less self-promotion and more humility

> Less selfishness and more servanthood
Gordon McDonald
“You can tell whether you are becoming a servant by how you act when people treat you like one.”
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather,

* he made himself nothing by taking the very natureof a servant, being made in human likeness.

*8 And being found in appearance as a man,he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!

(Philippians 2:5-8)
ULTIMATELY EVERYTHING POINTS BACK TO JESUS . . .