Section 2
with others. Some people were born in such a way that they are unable to weep or to rejoice. Regardless of how happy or joyful you are, they remain expressionless. Some brothers and sis ters do not know how to rejoice or to weep with others; they seem to be stones without human affection. However, the church life needs emo tional people. We all must be properly emotional and full of expression. I would like to have a face that can express all my emotions properly and adequately. We cannot put together people with stone faces and call it the church life; we must be living stones, stones full of affection. We must learn to rejoice and to weep with others.
Then Paul admonishes us saying, "Be of the same mind toward one another, not minding high things, but being led away to the lowly. Do not be wise in yourselves" (v. 16). Paul was prac tical. When he tells us to be led away to lowly things, he includes everything. We should try to be led away to whatever is lowly. Do not be so high, but be led away to lowly things.
TOWARD GOD
Verse 11 describes the way we should be toward God: "Not slothful in zeal, burning in spirit, serving the Lord as a slave."