Effective Christian Leaders build up andthen make the case for improvement. Paul says - Complete my joy by striving for unity. He is pleading with the Philippians. Paul's progression is an affection filled plea. First class conditional clauses, a rhetorical device. The "if" or "since" is most definite. If there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit. These are blessed realities. The circumstance determines the tone. The disunity among them has not reached such heights to invite censure at this point. But if not addressed in this manner and dealt with, Paul thinks that he will have run in vain. There is a very real sense that what has been going on in this Philippian church I think is much more weighty than I have been led to believe. He is asking them that if they had these things? I know you do, dear brothers and sisters. So complete my joy by striving in unity. I believe that there was a major unity problem at Philippi. Paul is going to help them to address this in the right way.
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John Tobler has been studying good theology and taking Greek online from SBTS in Louisville. He has recently begun to preach and teach for the Reformed Baptist Church of Tama, Iowa, occasionally. He is doing this with a possible view of his becoming a pastor in the future.
