Quotes from Gregory Brown

Christ's incarnation challenges us to give up our rights in order to love God and others. Philippians 2:6-7 says, "who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself..." Christ did not hold onto his rights and privileges as deity but relinquished them in order to better love God and others.

Christ's incarnation challenges us to be servants of God and others. In Philippians 2:7, Paul said Christ "emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature." A slave or servant is consumed with the desires of those he serves. Likewise, instead of living for himself and his comfort, Christ sought to sacrificially serve God and others with his life.

As Christ waits at the right hand of God (cf. Heb 10:12), in this season of grace, we wait. We wait, not in the sense that we are not active in completing the great commission. We wait in the sense that we shouldn't be anxious or worried about the apparent lack of fruit or evil that surrounds us. Christ is coming and his enemies will become his footstool (Heb 10:13).