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Destroying Our Private Cities, Building Our Spiritual Life

Synopsis

Every time the church adopts the surrounding culture's values, it dies a little. Often it is brought to the brink of the grave. In every age, the church has had to wrestle for its very life. Paul's letter to the Philippians cuts across the misplaced values of a self-centered culture. Destroying Our Private Cities, Building Our Spiritual Life is a lay commentary, written in a homiletical and expositional style, that enables readers to hear Paul's argument through Philippians and how the church's flirtation with individualism has affected our faith and the life of the church. The danger of our privatized, modern faith is exposed. Both personal and church-corporate solutions to have "the mind of Christ" are given. Destroying Our Private Cities, Building Our Spiritual Life offers the lay reader insight, and offers pastors and Bible study leaders plenty of expositional depth on Paul's letter to the Philippians.

Author Biography

Chip M. Anderson

Chip M. Anderson has degrees from Crown College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and was ordained by the Christian and Missionary Alliance. He was a professor at Prairie Bible College (Three Hills, Alberta), as well as an adjunct-instructor at Nyack College. He has written for Servant Magazine, MetroVoice, and The Christian Librarian; his articles appear in His Dominion, The Evangelical Journal, and Trinity Journal. Currently he is the Director of Planning at NEON, Inc., a Community Action Agency in Norwalk, Connecticut. He also served as the chairperson for Southwestern Connecticut's Welfare-to-Work Task Force. Chip lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with his wife Lisa and four children: Sarah, Amanda, Michael, and Robert. Along with preaching the Word, Chip also consults for community-based and faith-based non-profits as well as for churches on program development, strategic planning, and mission statement development.