What will students learn from Philippians?
Philippians is especially relevant to our students who are coming of age in an environment characterized by faulty ideas of God as a divine wish granter on the one side, and as a tyrannical dictator on the other. Paul’s encouragement to avoid theological error is an invitation to think about God as He has revealed Himself in the Bible, rather than as we imagine Him to be. Second, Paul’s encouragement to stand firm in the Spirit in the midst of opposition matters for our students because they, like the Philippians of the first century, are confronted, in some cases, with very real religious persecution and, in others, with temptations to worship modern equivalents of false gods such as success, money and power.
Written by Tucker Fleming, Edited by Cameron Cole