Shocking Our Culture Through Servanthood Rich Nathan March 27, 2011 Lent: 40 Days of Drawing Near to Jesus Series Luke 17.7-10 I read a story about three men, Leon, Joseph, and Clyde, who were all psychiatric patients at a Michigan-based hospital. They were all diagnosed with psychotic delusional disorder of the grandiose type. What was the problem for Leon, Joseph, and Clyde? Each one believed that they were Jesus Christ. Each of them believed that they were the central figure around whom the world revolved. Each one of them was the Messiah. A psychologist named Milton Rokeach wrote about these three men in a book titled The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. Dr. Rokeach tried to work with these men to come to grips about themselves that they were just Leon, Joseph, and Clyde and not Jesus Christ. Change came really hard. The men were generally normal except when you challenged their messianic delusion. So, Dr. Rokeach decided to from a little Messianic recovery group. What he did was he had the three men room together. He thought that these three messiahs might be able to help one another come to grips with reality. The experiment led to some pretty interesting conversations. One of the men would say, “I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God and I’m on a mission to save the earth.” Another man would say, “How do you know?” The first man would say, “God told me,” to which he would receive the reply, “I never you told you any such thing.” Now, everyone of us since the time of our first parents has more than a touch of Leon, Joseph, and Clyde’s Messianic grandiosity in our own lives. Our first parents wanted to be like God and we have followed faithfully in their steps ever since. I think of Winston Churchill’s famous statement where he said, We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm! Some of us put our grandiosity out there a little more extravagantly. Mohammed Ali, who was famous for regularly saying, “I am the greatest!” was supposedly on a plane one time when the flight attendant asked him to buckle his seatbelt. Ali refused and said, “Superman don’t need no seatbelt” to which the flight attendant replied, “Superman don’t need no plane either: Buckle up!” Boxing promoter, Don King, once said, “I never cease to amaze my own self” and then he added, “and I say that humbly.” One wonders what it would sound like, if he said it with pride!
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David Brooks, the New York Times editorial writer, recently wrote an editorial titled: Self-Esteem on Steroids Gets Us In Trouble. Here is what Brooks wrote: We are an over-confident country. 94% of college professors believe they have above average teaching skills. A survey of high school students found that 70% of them have above average leadership skills and only 2% are below average. American students no longer perform particularly well in global math tests, but Americans are among the world leaders when it comes to thinking that we are really good at math. Students in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan have much less self-confidence, although they actually do better than we do on math tests. In the 1950’s 12% of high school seniors said that they were “a very important person.” By the 1990s, 80% of high school seniors agreed with the statement, “I am a very important person.” As a culture we have more than a little bit of Leon, Joseph, and Clyde within us. The text we’re going to look at today challenges our fundamental identity as 21st century Americans. Now we live in a culture in which everyone, apparently, believes that they are very important people. We all have more than a touch of Leon, Joseph and Clyde in us. Jesus challenges his followers to assume a counter-cultural identity, to see ourselves as servants. To use John Wimber’s, the founder of Vineyard, famous phrase, to see ourselves as “loose change in the pocket of God willing to be spent wherever God chooses to spend us.” The 40 Day season of the church calendar we are in right now is called “Lent.” Lent is a time not only for Christians to abstain from certain things that are getting their way of a relationship with God, but also to engage in certain activities – especially activities that help the poor and help our brothers and sisters in the church. I’ve called today’s talk: Shocking the Culture Through Servanthood. Let’s pray. Luke 17:7-10 7 “Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? 8 Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? 9 Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’ ” Four times in this text Jesus refers to his followers as servants.
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Luke 17:7-10 7 “Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? 8 Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? 9 Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’ ” The Greek word for servant is: Doulos Doulos literally means “slave.” The term doulos, or slave, occurs 125 times in the New Testament and in almost every instance the term refers to the relationship between a believer and Christ. In fact, doulos, slave, is the second most frequently used term in the New Testament to describe the relationship between Christ and a believer. Only the Greek term that we translate “disciple” is used more frequently. The interesting thing is that the term disciple is almost exclusively used in the gospels and in the book of Acts whereas doulos, or slave, is used through the New Testament. So we read verses like this: Romans 1:1 Paul, a doulos of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle… Philippians 1:1 Paul and Timothy, douloi of Christ Jesus, to all of the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi… 2 Timothy 2:24 The Lord’s doulos must not be quarrelsome… James 1:1 James, doulos of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ… 2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a doulos and apostle of Jesus Christ… Jude 1:1 Jude, doulos of Jesus Christ… Virtually every writer of the New Testament saw himself as a doulos, as a servant, a slave of Jesus Christ. Now, in terms of a counter-cultural identity which would shock the American culture, imagine a group of people who embraced this identity as slaves, not © 2010 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org
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because they were forced into slavery through domination or oppression, but who volunteered, who said “yes” to the offer of love and grace found in Christ. Let me just drill in here a bit. If you see yourself as a doulos, as a servant, or slave, this by definition concerns your entire life. Servanthood concerns entirety When you are a slave you don’t get to keep a part of your time for yourself, or some of your money, or some of your clothes, or some of your property. Your owner owns everything including your life, and your kids, and your relationships. Your owner owns everything. CS Lewis, the late professor of medieval English at Oxford University, in one of my all-time favorite texts in all of his writings, gets to the heart of the matter regarding the identity of a follower of Jesus. What does it mean to be a Christian? And to answer that question, Lewis asked another question in his classic book, Mere Christianity. The question Lewis asked is: How much of myself must I give to God? You are a doulos, a servant, a slave of Jesus Christ. That’s what you signed up for when you became a Christian. This is your title, your status, your I.D. – doulos, slave, servant. How much of myself must I give to Christ? Here’s CS Lewis’ classic answer: Christ says, “Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want YOU. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked – the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours. And then Lewis goes on and says this: The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self – all your wishes and precautions – to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call “ourselves”, to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time to be “good”. We are all trying to let our mind and heart go their own way – centered on money or pleasure or ambition – and hoping, in spite of this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly.
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And that is exactly what Christ warned us you could not do. As He said, “A thistle cannot produce figs.” If I am a field that contains nothing but grass seed, I cannot produce wheat. Cutting the grass may keep it short: but I shall still produce grass and no wheat. If I want to produce wheat, the change must go deeper than the surface. I must be ploughed up and re-sown. Anyone here see that this has been your approach to your faith – you are trying to hold on to your basic ambitions – happiness, career success, money, romance and still hoping to be a good person and a good follower of Jesus. Lewis says that that is impossible! We must be completely plowed up. Now many followers of Jesus think that what they’re being asked to do is to sign up to serve. And so we talk about volunteering to serve in Children’s Ministry, or volunteering to serve at our Food Pantry, or serving in our Community Center. But that’s not quite it at all. Jesus does not invite us to serve; he invites us to be servants – douloi, slaves. When you serve, you determine where and when you want to expend your energy, but you retain all of your rights and all of your own dreams and all of your own ambitions and you take a portion of that because you are a very charitable person, a nice person, a giving person and you choose to give a way a little bit of your time or money to someone who is in need. But when you are a servant, a doulos, a slave, and I don’t mean in some dehumanizing way, I mean, you voluntarily choose this identity because you’ve been gripped by the love of Jesus Christ, then your whole approach to life is totally different. If Christ owns everything, literally everything, then we are loose change in his pocket and he can spend you as he wills and he can call you to anything he chooses. So which is it? Do you see yourself retaining most of you and you choose on occasion to serve a little here or there; or, do you see yourself as having given you up to Christ? You’re a doulos, a servant, a slave? Now, in this parable Jesus opens up servanthood to us and tells us, Servanthood concerns excuses A servant, a slave can offer no excuses. Luke 17:7-8 7“Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? 8Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’?
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This woman or man was called in from the fields, from tending animals, and she can’t say, “Well, I’m an outdoor slave, I work in the fields, I work in the stables – my gifting is really in the area of gardening or animal husbandry.” You know, churches in the last 15 years have given their members all kinds of gifts and personality and passions and strengths tests and shapes tests and inventories of all kinds so that people could be deployed by the church in their areas of gifting and strengths. And we who are followers of Christ often try to discern God’s will for our futures by asking the question: Is what I’m sensing consistent with my deepest passions, with my gifts? We sort of run through a What Color Is My Parachute analysis in determining the will of God. And I don’t think this is all bad that we are trying to figure out where is it likely that God will primarily use me. But I do think that there is at least a little bit of a problem with all the tests, all the inventories, and all of the assessment tools that we’ve developed in this country and that is that these things can communicate to people that if this need is outside of yourself profile, then you don’t need to meet it. “Well, I don’t have the gift of hospitality, so I don’t need to open up my home for a small group each week.” “I don’t have the gift of evangelism, so I don’t have to bear witness.” “I don’t have the gift of healing, so I don’t have to pray for the sick.” Again, this comes down to fundamental identity. I’m a doulos, a servant, a slave which means that God could, and regularly does in my life; call me to serve in a way that cuts across the grain of my temperament, my personality and gifts. I took one of those Strength Finders’ tests a few years ago. It is a computerized test. They asked about 150 questions. My number one strength was being strategic. But one of my top five strengths was something that they called “achiever.” Achievers start every day at zero and feel like they need to accomplish something in order to feel like the day was well spent. Achievers have a fire burning inside. If the day passes without some kind of achievement, they will feel dissatisfied, like they wasted time. I could say, “Well, that’s just the way I am.” Do you know what servanthood feels like to me? You know when I’m most aware of being loose change in the pocket of the Lord, to be spent as he wills? It is when God asks me to do nothing; to just sit there and watch my 8-year old on Saturday morning play soccer, or basketball. Don’t read another book, play a game of war with your 4-year old. Are any of you achievers, being asked by God to serve by doing nothing? Years ago the Lord spoke to me and said, “Rich, if you can’t serve me by doing absolutely nothing, then you’re thinking of yourself more highly than you ought to think.” In other words, you are taking yourself just a little bit too seriously. Nobody is so valuable, so indispensible to some greater goal that they can’t be available to their families, to their children, to their spouses, to their aging © 2010 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org
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parents, to sit in a nursing home for a couple of hours. Nobody’s time is so important that they must always accomplish something. I don’t know what cuts across the grain for you. We’re all wired differently. But I can tell you that you can offer no excuses to God regarding why this very mundane act, or for you this great thing, this upfront, in the spotlight, everyone looking at you, is something you can say, “I simply will not do this.” You are a servant; you are a doulos, a slave. No excuses because of age In the passage this man or woman comes in from the field after working all day and is not able to say to his master, “Look, I’ve put in my time working for you. Now it is time for me to reward myself.” As Rick Warren once said, “You can retire from a career, but you can’t retire from being a servant of Christ.” Our culture says that if you have enough money at age 55 or 60 or 65, or whatever, go ahead and indulge yourself. You deserve it. Spend your retirement years playing golf, or gardening, or traveling from place to place. Be a snow bird and spend 6-9 months of the year in Florida or Arizona soaking in the sun. You deserve it; you worked hard. Followers of Christ are shockingly countercultural when it comes to understanding retirement. We retire from careers, but you never retire from being a servant. We see our older years as a time when we can maximally serve. How dare we take the investment of God in our lives over the course of 60-70 years and just fritter it away. There is a ministry that just started in our church titled Phase III. PHASE III: A ministry of time and talent for the third phase of life Let me read to you their mission statement: This ministry is designed for retirees who want to connect, grow, and serve in the Kingdom. Twice a month fellowship meetings at the Vineyard Community Center allow retirees to connect with others in the same stage of life. Each meeting includes worship, devotionals, guest speakers sharing about “third phase” relevant topics, and time for general discussion. The ministry also has a strong focus in helping retired professionals apply their skills and experience for service to the church and Kingdom. Starting on April 5th, meetings will be every first and third Tuesday of the month from 9:30 to 11:30 am in the Vineyard Community Center.
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[email protected] This is for anyone 55 and above. But no excuses because of age! Well, I worked all day, so I don’t have to serve. No excuses because of inconvenience or insignificance I mentioned CS Lewis, who is my favorite Christian writer. He is the author of the Narnia Chronicles, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and other Christian classics. As I mentioned, Lewis was a professor of medieval English at Oxford University. And during World War II (WWII) he took in many children into his home, children who were fleeing London and other cities that were vulnerable to German bombing. Because they were children and their parents weren’t with them, they needed lots of attention. It was a huge inconvenience to have these children running around his house. Lewis was a bachelor. He was a scholar and a writer. Not only were the kids a huge inconvenience, but they made a lot of noise. As someone who was a teacher and who taught college, I can only imagine what it would be like to sit and try to prepare one of my college classes, or a message for church now, and keep writing books and articles and letters while kids are running through the house. Actually, God used this inconvenience of having children running through the house and it helped produce one of his most famous writings. One afternoon one of the evacuated children grew interested in an old wardrobe and asked Lewis if perhaps there was anything behind it. This child planted in Lewis’ mind the seed for which his most beloved book, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, grew. Lewis’ biographer said: Having children in the house benefitted [Lewis] immensely. He had been shy and ignorant of them, but he now gradually acquired the knowledge and affection for them that made it possible for him to write the Narnia books. Without their presence in his house, it is unlikely that he would have ever had that impulse. Serving in inconvenience. Let me share with you a brief video of one of the dentists in our church, Dr. Tim Moore. Video Clip of Dr. Tim Moore I want to read to you an email from the co-leader of our church’s ministry to juvenile male prisoners at the Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility. He is also an attorney-volunteer for the Community Center’s Free Legal Clinic. For the prison © 2010 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org
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ministry he organizes, and with the help of a team of volunteers, conducts Bible studies with the youth in prison each Thursday night. And at the Legal Clinic he offers free legal services to people in our community who are in need. He volunteered for these things because he wanted to find a ministry that very few people would do that fits the criteria of Matthew 25. As he looked over the church’s ministries, he realized that going to prisons is probably something that very few other people want to do, and it also fit Matthew 25, “I was a prisoner and you visited me.” We asked Jeff, who is the attorney, “What are the best things about serving to you.” Here is what he said: There are a lot. At the prison I’ve had the privilege of praying with lots of young men who want to receive Christ. I’ve also had that privilege at the legal clinic with one of the clients. She came in with a legal question and she left with a personal relationship with Jesus. I’ve see her in the crowd here at church since then. Serving in prison ministry and legal clinic keep me grounded I practice law in a large international law firm (one of the 25 largest in the world) and its not uncommon to find myself referring to deals that involve a few million dollars as “small deals.” Its basically an “ivory tower” and, if you spend all your time there, you can get a skewed view of, well, everything. Serving in prison or at legal clinic is a reality check that reminds me that my problems are very small. Serving makes me more thankful than I would otherwise be. Serving makes me more compassionate. I am not naturally inclined to be a very compassionate person and can fool myself into thinking that I am – by my own merit – able to deal with life well and avoid problems that others experience. Those thoughts are hard to maintain when you meet people at legal clinic or get to interact with a young man in prison. It is true that everyone makes choices that impact their lives, but there are other factors at work too. I’ve had many people teach and show me how to do life better than I would have all on my own. Some people have no one who does that. Serving at legal clinic opens my eyes to all the options I take for granted that are not available to the poor. Inconvenience and insignificance. That’s the way servanthood often feels. It feels like you’re in bed as a husband and you hear your baby crying. Now, if you’re like me, your first and probably second instinct is to roll over and pretend that you are such a heavy sleeper that you can’t hear the baby. And then when your wife gets up to get the baby, you can mumble something like, “You know, I was just going to get up.” That way you can get credit for having a good intention while remaining in bed.
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It is hard to be a servant. Every time you really assume this identity, you die a little bit. Every time you say, especially in those cutting across the grain moments, “I am a servant; I am available to you, Jesus” you are choosing the way of the cross; you’re choosing the death of your flesh; you’re choosing to crucify yourself with all of its preferences. But Jesus goes even further. He says servanthood concerns entitlement. Servanthood concerns entitlement Luke 17:8-9 8 Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? 9 Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? The master in this story offers no thanks to his slave. You talk about being countercultural to very important 21st century people. If you want to shock this culture, act as if you don’t believe you are entitled. We live in a culture of entitlement. Just listen to our children and the tone of their voices when they say, “Whatever.” Or when they are asked to do something and they say, “Fine,” with the roll of their eyes. Or “Dad, you’ve got to take me to soccer.” Or “Mom, there is nothing good in this house to eat.” “Why should I get the phone; it’s not for me anyway.” “I didn’t make the mess, why should I clean it up.” Have you ever driven kids in a carpool and have them run out of the car and slam the door without ever turning back and saying, “Thank you.” Have you ever sat in a restaurant and watched kids being served without even glancing up at the wait staff and saying any word of appreciation? If you are waiting for a thank you from kids, some of you are going to be holding your breath quite a long time. Parents contribute to this self-centered, narcissistic, entitlement syndrome by creating child-centered homes where you eat only what the child wants to eat, and you talk about only what your children want to talk about. You never talk with your kids about your day or your interests. You just ask them about their day and their interests. I read something from a child psychiatrist in Manhattan named Alvin Rosenfeld. He is a psychiatrist who studies family systems and he said: In America today, life often begins with the anointing of “his Majesty, the Fetus,” from then on, many families focus their conversations entirely on their kids. Today’s parents are the best-educated generation ever. So why do our kids see us primarily discussing kids’ schedules and activity?
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He encourages parents to talk about their passions, their interests, about politics, about business, about world events with their kids. Don’t allow your kid to think that they are the center of the universe. It’s not just little ones who have this entitlement mentality. The New York Times recently reported that researchers surveying college students found that a 1/3 of all college students expected B’s just for attending lectures. 40% said they deserved a B just for completing the required reading. Nearly 2/3’s of students surveyed said that if they explained to a professor that they were trying hard, that should be taken into account in assigning a grade. And we carry this entitlement mentality into the workplace. Managers set absolutely no-brainer performance standards which are designed to make people feel comfortable rather than to stretch them or to push them to higher performance. And then we come to God and relate to him in the same entitlement culture fashion. We say, “Lord, after all I’ve done; I’ve really tried to serve you; I’ve really tried to clean up my act; I’ve really tried to do what you wanted me to do; and this is the way I get treated by you?” I’ve met so many people who have gotten bitter towards God because life hasn’t gone the way they believed it ought to go. And, at bottom, there is in many people’s minds the view that God owes us something. Well, maybe not us, but God owes our mother or our father or our child something. “My mother served you her whole life, and this is her reward? She has Alzheimer’s. She has cancer. She gets mugged. Am I not entitled to some consideration? Is she not entitled to catch a break?” “I’ve been keeping myself sexually pure and what has it gotten me? I’m still single.” “I’ve really tried to obey you. And I still am not employed in my field.” Satan’s great challenge to God which probes to the heart of everyone who has an entitlement mentality, Satan’s great challenge to God is found in the book of Job found in Job 1:9-11: Job 1:9-11 9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10“Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
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God, your best servants only serve you for what they can get out of it. They don’t serve you for nothing. If things don’t go well, they’ll curse you to your face. Jesus says this in response: Luke 17:9-10 9 Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’ ” God says, “I owe you nothing.” This is really a fundamental theological issue, friends, concerning how you relate to God. Because even though we talk a lot about grace in the 21st century church, most of us are still back in the Middle Ages in terms of our mindset where we still have the mindset of a treasury of merit. You know, we have our spiritual savings account where we are storing up by all of our good deeds, that we are entitled to draw on when we need help. The test of our understanding of grace involves a very deep and penetrating embrace of the truth that we have absolutely no claim on God for anything. We can have no self-righteousness before the Lord. “Well, I’ve lived a certain way, therefore…” At the core of our being, if you want to follow the way of grace, laid out in the Christian Bible, you must believe that God owes you nothing. So, what then do we get out of serving Christ? Why serve Christ? If being Christ’s servant does not automatically result in me having a great marriage, or being entitled to good health, or having everything go well for a loved one, or having successful, well-adjusted children, who also love Christ; if I can’t lay claim to that, then do I get out of serving Christ? I think this parable suggests two things: I get Christ The servant gets to be near to the master. In serving Christ I get Christ. Augustine caught this when he said: Give me your own self without whom though you should give me all that ever you have made, yet could not my desires be satisfied. Thomas á Kempis said: It is too small and unsatisfactory, whatever you bestow on me, apart from yourself. © 2010 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org
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Friends, you not only get Christ, but you know what else you get? I get to look like Christ The Apostle Paul says this in Philippians 2: 5 – 7: Philippians 2:5-7 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same attitude of mind Christ Jesus had: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. That word “being” in Philippians 2 6 is often misunderstood. Philippians 2:6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage: A lot of people think that what Paul is trying to communicate is that despite the fact that Jesus Christ was God, he was willing to take on the form of a servant. But that’s not what Paul meant by using the term “being in very nature God.” He is not communicating that despite the fact that he was God, he became a servant. He is saying because he was in the very nature of God, he became a servant. It is the very nature of God to serve. Because Christ was God, he took on the form of a servant. The most important person in the world, God, is by nature a servant. And because this is the very nature of the Triune God to always eternally be a serving God, that those who sign up to follow that God themselves must become servants. Utterly countercultural, you are a servant, if you belong to our Servant God. Let’s pray.
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Shocking Our Culture Through Servanthood Rich Nathan March 27, 2011 Lent: 40 Days of Drawing Near to Jesus Series Luke 17.7-10 I.
Servanthood concerns entirety
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Servanthood concerns excuses A. No excuses because of gifting B. No excuses because of age or amount you’ve already served C. No excuses because of inconvenience or insignificance
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Servanthood concerns entitlement
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What do I get out of serving? A. I get Christ B. I get to look like Christ
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