We tend to think that things like doctrinal positions unite us. But what they really do is draw a line in the sand, identifying who can belong and who can’t. In the modern American Church we outsource the work of communal discernment to things like belief statements, where we can visit a church’s website, know everything they believe, and then decide, before we’ve ever met an actual person at that church, if it’s a place we can fit in. And it’s an indication as to why evangelical Christians tend to pick churches based on political convictions rather than relational commitments. But the church Paul describes in Philippians is one that is capable of holding deep theological differences and yet remaining committed to one another. Because commitment has less to do with doctrinal commitments and more to do with disposition, our commitments to how we’ll relate to one another. This week, Dennis Allan walks through Philippians 2:1-4, looking at what truly unites a church.