Word for the Week

Week beginning: 18th January, 2015

By Mhairi Hamilton | Ashford

"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 used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness."

Philippians 2 v 3-7 ( NIV)

God often calls us to act in a way that is contrary to the way of the world. In our workplaces, we are encouraged to boast of our achievements, even to the detriment of others. How then do we respond?

Paul exhorts us not to be motivated by our self-c