As part of our "Won’t You Be My Neighbor" series, we collected food and socks and underwear for school aged kids that needed a little help. We also sponsored 11 children Yazidi children, who have been on the run from ISIS. When we give to our neighbors, we resemble Him, because He gives. Believe it or not, that’s a pretty big deal, because God created us in His image, to resemble Him. And so when we do stuff like that, we are living out the very reason we were made.

2. We Were Created
To Act Like God

3. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.
Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not
looking to your own interests but each of you to the
interests of the others.
In your relationships with one another, have the
same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be

4. used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death— even death on a
cross!
- Philippians 2:3-8

5. Being the Neighbor You Wish You Had Means:

6. Being the Neighbor You Wish You Had Means:
1) Pursuing Humility

7. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.
Rather, in humility value others above yourselves…
- v. 3

8. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.
Rather, in humility value others above yourselves…
- v. 3
Humility: Thinking of yourself ACCURATELY!

9. Being the Neighbor You Wish You Had Means:
1) Pursuing Humility
2) Developing Discipline
“…not looking to your own interests but each of you
to the interests of the others.”
- v. 4

10. In your relationships with one another, have the
same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be
used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.

11. And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death— even death on a
cross!
- Philippians 2:3-8