Someone asked Dr. Albert Schweitzer...
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Someone asked Dr. Albert Schweitzer why he left Europe and went to Africa to serve as a medical missionary. "You see," he said, "I had a little work to do for God there."
Think of it! Schweitzer was forty years old, a theologian with a bestselling book, an accomplished concert pianist acclaimed all over Europe, and a trained physician. Yet at age forty he moved to Africa and served as a missionary. He gave up fame, wealth, ease -- all to do a little work for God in Africa.
That's what Philippians 2:5-11 is about. Our having this mind in us that we have in Christ Jesus, who though he was God, emptied himself, taking on the form of man, and serving even unto death on a cross!
Think of it! Schweitzer was forty years old, a theologian with a bestselling book, an accomplished concert pianist acclaimed all over Europe, and a trained physician. Yet at age forty he moved to Africa and served as a missionary. He gave up fame, wealth, ease -- all to do a little work for God in Africa.
That's what Philippians 2:5-11 is about. Our having this mind in us that we have in Christ Jesus, who though he was God, emptied himself, taking on the form of man, and serving even unto death on a cross!
