Word for the Week

Week beginning: 1st February, 2015

By Mark Barrell | Bury St Edmunds

"I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and the all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ."

Philippians 1 v 12-13 (ESV)

Paul writes these words to the young and growing Philippian church from prison. Rather than bemoaning his circumstances Paul encourages his recipients to be confident in Christ and know that the gospel is being proclaimed, to the point that even the