We’re wrapping up our People In Person series this week at The Gathering. We’re going to be looking at the seemingly difficult but amazingly freeing life Paul calls us to in Philippians chapter 2, “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves.” (verse 3). That’s one of those passages that takes your breath away. It makes you stop and ask if Paul could have possibly meant that. He did, by the way.

There’s another passage just like it a little later in the chapter. This one isn’t going to come up in the talk this week, so it’s a little bonus for us hanging out on the blog. But Paul leveled me with verse 14 a few days ago and I wanted you to be able to share in the experience. “Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation”

Kind of stops you in your tracks, doesn’t it? I don’t know about you, but I can be a complainer! Not in a whinny kind of way (at least I don’t think so) but in more of a “do you see what’s going on here!!” kind of way. But, my little distinction is honestly pretty irrelevant. What matters is that all of the grumbling and disputing needs to go.

But here’s the question: why do we all enjoy grumbling so much? Would love to hear your thoughts.