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The Sunday lectionary NT epistle for Lent 2 is Phil 3.17–4.1. It follows on from the better-known autobiographical passage—which we will discuss in three week's time in Lent 5.

Paul uses neologisms—words that he appears to have created—to urge his readers together to imitate his example, and the examples of his co-workers, and avoid the examples of those leading them astray. Just as Philippi is an outpost of Rome, so they are to live as citizens of heaven, out of step with the world around them. Paul ends his plea with his most developed terms of affection in all of his letters.

Come and join Ian and James as they explore the issues here! Revd James Blandford-Baker is vicar of Histon and Impington, two villages just north of Cambridge. Revd Dr Ian Paul is Associate Minister of St Nic's, Nottingham, and writes the widely-read blog www.psephizo.com.

The Grove booklet on imitiation in the NT and today by Cor Bennema can be found here: https://grovebooks.co.uk/product/b-115-imitation-in-early-christianity-and-today/

The video on the gospel reading for this week of Jesus' lament over Jerusalem in Luke 13 can be found here: https://youtu.be/Ec6KHKpMQCQ

You can read the written commentary about it here: https://www.psephizo.com/biblical-studies/who-is-included-in-and-excluded-from-the-kingdom-in-luke-13/