Characteristics of a Servant
Sensitivity: the ability to see
- beyond our own need
- beyond others' obvious needs
- beyond the "presenting problem"
- beyond what is to what will be needed
Willingness: the desire to act
- a heart of compassion
- a reflex to be generous
- a choice to make it a priority
Ability: the resources to give
- time, availability
- money, things
- skills, education, training
- healing, God's power
- insight, wisdom
- love, care compassion
Mark 10: Why be a servant?
The economy of God
- Others needs are met, We are blessed, God is glorified WHEN We serve in his name with his resources
Implications of Mark 10:
- The decision about leadership is not essentially a decision about taking on a role with a certain job description and time commitments. It is a decision to take on a lifestyle, with certain priorities, convictions, and attitudes.
What Keeps Us From Serving?
Selfishness
- We don't care enough about people.
- We don't spend time praying for them or thinking about them.
- We haven't served them enough to build trust with them.
- We haven't gotten to know them.
Fear
- We don't believe that God's words and promises to us apply to others and we fear that he may let them down.
- We fear being wrong, or being thought to be wrong.
- We fear our lives being examined
1 comment:
I really enjoyed the reminder of how to live and also learned a lot from my break out group. For those that missed it, ya'll missed a good one. I hope that I see more of these type of events at Cornerstone to come. Thanks for all the hard work core team!
David
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