Striving for Unity: Embracing Christ-like Virtues

### Quotes for outreach

1. "But did he treat people, the sinners, the tax collectors, the prostitutes, with compassion, with patience, with dignity, under humility? He humbled himself to die on a cross when he could have zapped anyone he wanted to that got in his way. But he approached the cross with eagerness because he wanted unity of his human race, unity under God and his commandments and his gospel message of salvation." [01:09] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Ambition is sort of a portion of eagerness. And he says, be eager for unity. And that's what I want to sort of talk to you about. And within eagerness, there's a unique Greek word here. And I'm going to turn to it for just a moment, if I can find my folding page. It's called spoudozo. Spoudozo. And it means sort of to really hurry, which is interpreted today as being eager, to have an inner passion, to really want to attack. A real purposeful attacking mode within your being." [02:58] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Humility is a characteristic that under eagerness, when we're looking for unity, Paul starts out with being humble. as you know is really not thinking less of yourself c.s lewis said this a theologian as you know an author he says it's thinking of yourself a little bit less and i love that twist because you don't have to be totally self-effacing to be humble but it is where is your primary orientation is it on others or is it primarily on moi on what you want and what your goals are and what your needs are and what your ambition is for your own self-gratification versus your ambition for the word of god and what he wants out of you" [08:53] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Humility gentleness patience are three cores that then bear themselves out in the larger word of agape love which is unselfish love where we bear one another up in love all of your outpouring of love for someone in our congregation krista stapleton most recently is a good statement of bearing with one another in love when tragedy strikes we have been a phenomenal congregation in assisting others started the good samaritan fund by parishioners here and it's just been a blessing to be able to give out funds to help those that are in crises and for all that you've done for krista and her family i know she's incredibly grateful for you and i'm so grateful for you and i'm so grateful for you and i'm so grateful but it's truthfully a statement that is love coming from our hearts" [10:06] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "And I like what C.S. Lewis said. He said that if we find ourselves, you know, with a desire that can't be satisfied in this world, that the most probable explanation is we're not made. We're made for another world. We're really made for the eternal world. So I'm sort of... transcribing a little bit what C.S. Lewis may have intended. So ambition really should be to use our life in a very purposeful manner." [05:32] (24 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for members

1. "And he starts out saying that walk in a manner that's worthy of the calling, the gifts that you receive, whatever they may be, whatever your various vocations in life, parent, grandparent, worker, retired, widow, married, in your various roles in life, walk in a way that exemplifies, that gives glory to God in the way that you receive those gifts. Yes, worthy of the calling, worthy of the vocation that you're in. Christ, of course, is our focal point here, who embodies all these things." [06:27] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "And it goes on, Paul says it so beautifully here, that there's one body, one spirit, just as you were called in the hope of your calling, that there's one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, through all, and in all. It's a statement of creed. It's a statement of our creedal beliefs. Just like we recited together, the Nicene Creed today, which is always brought up at Communion Sunday, and we say the Apostles' Creed on the off Sundays, and once a year, we actually go through the Athanasian Creed. All creeds to really be an affirmation of the unity that we ascribe to." [07:23] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "And although we have doctrinal differences with other churches, we do ascribe in unity to all the three creeds, which state the core doctrine that we all follow as Christians. Humility is a characteristic that under eagerness, when we're looking for unity, Paul starts out with being humble." [08:08] (18 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "And I ask you as a as a as a statement to consider for this week that you take humility gentleness patience or upholding others in love and you focus on one of those this upcoming week because you aren't going to be able to knock these all off we won't be able to knock these all off in a lifetime right because we all struggle but take one of these identify with it and seek to be more humble or more gentle or more patient or more upholding of others in love as you go into this following week and may the word of Christ may the spirit of Christ may the mind of Christ dwell in you richly in his name Amen" [12:30] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "But the eagerness is this eagerness, excitement to maintain unity. We don't normally get too excited about unity. We get pretty excited about division, don't we? You know, when we get into a solid argument, when we watch the political debates, we watch one politician totally rip down another. We probably cringe at that, and there's a part of us that sort of likes it in a sick kind of way. And yet Paul says have that same kind of eagerness, not for division, for divisiveness, but for unity to be together." [06:27] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)