Aug 30, 2026 · 2 hr · 18 segments
In this episode of Sunday Live, I dive into the book of Philippians for a teaching on detecting performance-based influencers in the church. I unpack Paul’s striking warning to “beware of dogs, beware…
Mark DeJesusHost
Melissa DeJesusHost
I'm gonna do my best to make some time for questions after I walk through a few verses here.
I've been getting so much out of this, and so I, as I've been just gaining much, I pray that what I share with you today will be a blessing to you, 'cause we're gonna talk about detecting performance-based influencers in the church, and I'm gonna do my best to help process this out so that you get a sense for it to help you.
This section I'm gonna get into, ideally it needs to be looked through- In a wider scope, but, uh, I just feel like it needs some smaller chunks to pause and reflect.
But it's also good to let the whole context wash its way through as you're going through it.
So today we're gonna talk about, we're gonna talk about dogs, evil workers, and mutilation.
What does that mean? Well, I'm gonna explain it, and I'm gonna bring it into context to help you along your own journey.
Because every believer along the path bumps into people within the church, in the body of Christ.
Many of them can be leaders, many can be pastors, teachers, influencers, who claim to be guarding the truth and standing for it.
But they may actually be guarding a system that's performance-based living that infects the body of Christ.
And so today I'm gonna show you that Paul doesn't soften his warning about these kind of teachings infiltrating.
Takes a very, very strong, sharp stance, and he uses very strong words that need context.
And he brings out religious influencers that were pressuring believers to add performance, to add law, to add a, what we can call a perfectionistic mindset into their faith journey.
Verse two of chapter three, he says, "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation.
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence..."
Uh, and then the English Standard Version, "Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
I'm gonna do my best to make some time for questions after I walk through a few verses here.
I've been getting so much out of this, and so I, as I've been just gaining much, I pray that what I share with you today will be a blessing to you, 'cause we're gonna talk about detecting performance-based influencers in the church, and I'm gonna do my best to help process this out so that you get a sense for it to help you.
This section I'm gonna get into, ideally it needs to be looked through- In a wider scope, but, uh, I just feel like it needs some smaller chunks to pause and reflect.
But it's also good to let the whole context wash its way through as you're going through it.
So today we're gonna talk about, we're gonna talk about dogs, evil workers, and mutilation.
What does that mean? Well, I'm gonna explain it, and I'm gonna bring it into context to help you along your own journey.
Because every believer along the path bumps into people within the church, in the body of Christ.
Many of them can be leaders, many can be pastors, teachers, influencers, who claim to be guarding the truth and standing for it.
But they may actually be guarding a system that's performance-based living that infects the body of Christ.
And so today I'm gonna show you that Paul doesn't soften his warning about these kind of teachings infiltrating.
Takes a very, very strong, sharp stance, and he uses very strong words that need context.
And he brings out religious influencers that were pressuring believers to add performance, to add law, to add a, what we can call a perfectionistic mindset into their faith journey.
Verse two of chapter three, he says, "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation.
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence..."
Uh, and then the English Standard Version, "Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
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