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The Community of a Church -- Food for Thought

Theological professor, Cornelius Platinga, Jr. wrote, "Thus the summit of church membership is being membered with others not only by common love or loyalty for the same Lord, but also by having the divine mind--the servant mind, the deferring-to-others mind. Membership in the church implies the high goal of imitating the divine life by glorifying and exalting other and so doing by "taking on the form of a servant".

Philippians 2 says, "Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interest of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which you have in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likenss of men".