“Whatever” is usually the word you use when you’re done listening. In Philippians 4:1-9, Paul flips is the other way. Paul turns “whatever” into a wide-open invitation to grow your moral imagination and to pursue what is honorable, just, pure, pleasing, and commendable. The surprising twist is that those words are not a small box. They are guardrails for a bigger life with God and neighbor.
In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation about a real tension many of us feel: church can drift into being an institution that shrinks people, which is why “spiritual not religious” resonates. If Jesus is not meant to be domesticated, what would it look like to “give him back to the world” through the way we live, lead, and serve? Listen in for the full conversation.
Read For Faith, the companion devotional.
