Section 11
should be the basic and elementary principle of our Christian life.
How wonderful it would be if all Christians had this mind and walked in this path! The rea son for the confusion and the divisions among Christians today is that so few are willing to walk according to this basic principle. Here in Phi lippians Paul did not deal with the problem of the church. His burden was to point out that our need is to pursue Christ. I believe that as Paul was writing this Epistle, he exhausted the vo cabulary available to him to express his burden concerning the Christian walk. As Christians, we need to walk in a particular lane—the lane, the path, of pursuing Christ. We should care for "only this," this "one thing," not so many differ ent doctrines and practices. But today believers are distracted by things such as prophecy, head covering, foot washing, the mode of baptism and the kind of water used, the type of bread used at the Lord's table, and even the size of the cup used to contain the wine or grape juice. How poor is such a situation! If, by contrast, we would see that God has set up a goal for us and has prepared a prize for us, and if we would have the mind to pursue Christ, the world would be