Fire or Form? As the early church began to develop its sense of identity, it was challenged to consider the form, content, and meaning of what it meant to follow Jesus. The church at Philippi provides Pauls with a case study for the challenge of being a church that doesn’t “form” but “follows” the way of Jesus in ever expanding ways: I. Form: Bounded set vs. Centered set, II. Content: Purity vs. Compassion, III. Meaning: Measured vs. Measureless