Chapter 3

¹ I’m not giving you orders as though I were someone important. For even though I am bound in the name, I am not yet perfected in Jesus Christ. Right now I’m only beginning to be a disciple, and I speak to you as my fellow students. For I needed to be anointed by you with faith, instruction, endurance, and long-suffering.

² But since love doesn’t allow me to be silent about you, for this reason I’ve taken the initiative to encourage you to run together in harmony with the mind of God. For Jesus Christ, our undivided life, is the mind of the Father, just as the bishops appointed throughout the world are in the mind of Jesus Christ.