One of my friends leads a house church (or something like that) in my hometown. On his blog he wrote this about serving other people
In the paragraph before this, he writes about how when Christians think of "service projects," images of glory and grandeur come to mind. He makes the point of emphasizing that serving other people isn't always so grand (in fact, most of the time, it is quite ordinary, mundane, and unnoticed). When Jesus washed the disciples' feet to show them the way of servitude, he did someting quite ordinary, quite mundane, something quite run-of-the-mill. As Jesus' disciples, we must be content to serve others in the simplest, unnoticed ways.
Service, much like love, has no agenda. We do not serve to be thanked, or to be enriched. We do not serve to lift ourselves up or to add stories for us to share later. We serve because Jesus served. Period.
In the paragraph before this, he writes about how when Christians think of "service projects," images of glory and grandeur come to mind. He makes the point of emphasizing that serving other people isn't always so grand (in fact, most of the time, it is quite ordinary, mundane, and unnoticed). When Jesus washed the disciples' feet to show them the way of servitude, he did someting quite ordinary, quite mundane, something quite run-of-the-mill. As Jesus' disciples, we must be content to serve others in the simplest, unnoticed ways.
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in my best eeyore voice, "Thanks for noticin'."
That's good! Mind if I quote it in our church bulletin? I try to have a though provoking quote in there each week, and it would be perfect!
quote away, I am sure it was something i lifted from someone else. "nothing new is under the sun" or something like that. i just ask that you go to the orignal post to get the full context first.
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