Thursday, November 6, 2008

“You got served”


Today I want to focus on the letter “S” of our campus ministry name, which stands for Service. We value service to our campuses and glocal communities. People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care. So we feel serving people is the best way for us to show we really care.

Sometimes serving is seen as an entry level position in the church. Some may think, “I cant preach, sing, or lead in “important” stuff yet...so I’ll just serve until I graduate from this position.” Simple service and greatness are not contradictory.

In fact, Jesus implied that the greatest people are those who serve others. So we recognize that our call to greatness is a call to servitude, especially to those outside of the church. Serving those in need, means you get to walk in the supernatural power of God. When John the Baptist was in jail, he began to question his belief in Jesus so he sent some guys to find out for sure. As evidence to His divine origin, Jesus told these guys to tell John that the blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk, the dead are raised, and the gospel is being preached to the poor. Now the preaching of the gospel is not just in word, but in deed as well, but notice how SERVING THE POOR is in the same breath with other supernatural acts.

Serving is supernatural. Keep praying for the blind to see, and the dead to be raised. But with the same fervor and hopeful expectation, serve someone. Hopefully you can tell someone, you got served.

1 comment:

Aripiphany said...

who knew that such a terrible movie could be used as a line in making such a great point? this makes me want to come up with ideas for THIRST to reach out to the community. maybe doing some kind of outreach on a monthly basis? hmm.