RCL reading for Sunday, April 5, 2009:
Excerpt from The New Revised Standard Version
via Oremus (http://bible.oremus.org)
Philippians 2:5-11
5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
7 but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
STUDY GUIDE
Step 1. Read the passage aloud.
Step 2. Discuss what the passage tells us about God.
Step 3. Read the passage again.
Step 4. Discuss what the passage tells us about human beings and the relationship between people
Step 5. Read the passage aloud a third time.
Step 6. Discuss what the passage says about the relationship between God and human beings. How does the passage call us to change?
“Theological Bible Study,” from In Dialogue with Scripture: An Episcopal Guide to Studying the Bible, ed. Linda L. Grenz (Episcopal Church Center, 1993), p. 96.
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Paul is the earliest New Testament writer, right? This hymn is familiar enough to be known to both Paul and the church at Phillipi, so it must be very early indeed. This is how the Easter Event was looked at by the folks who were THERE, or at least knew someone who was.
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