Our passage can be seen as a summary of sorts regarding pretty much everything Paul has said in his letter thus far.

Paul didn’t just throw away all the bad stuff – like in the standard Christian testimonial where the speaker talks about leaving behind the drugs, the crime, and other bits of a rather wild lifestyle.

But God not only diagnosed the problem of loneliness long before it become our modern problem, God from the very beginning was also already working on and providing for us a cure from our loneliness.

in the passage we read this morning, Paul turns his attention to the Philippians and says to them, in effect, “And I challenge you to do the same”: “Let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ.”