Comments on: I now pronounce you Family & Church! http://bluefreak57.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/i-now-pronounce-you-family-church/ Acts 2:42 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:00:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bluefreak57 http://bluefreak57.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/i-now-pronounce-you-family-church/#comment-41 Bluefreak57 Fri, 18 May 2007 12:08:50 +0000 http://bluefreak57.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/i-now-pronounce-you-family-church/#comment-41 Steve, You are dead on Brother.... There is nothing more that need be said. Steve,

You are dead on Brother…. There is nothing more that need be said.

]]> By: anotherjarvi http://bluefreak57.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/i-now-pronounce-you-family-church/#comment-40 anotherjarvi Thu, 17 May 2007 20:56:01 +0000 http://bluefreak57.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/i-now-pronounce-you-family-church/#comment-40 I think this is where our American culture has really seeped into the Church here. It's so easy to get so focused on what special thing the Lord has called ME to do, or what is good for "my ministry calling" that we forget that serving has nothing to do with ME. Jesus said that the least among us would be considered the greatest. Let's not forget that to be a servant means to be humble, putting the needs of the body before our own and that our worldly notions of success and a stately career have absolutely nothing to do with what is of eternal, lasting value. What happened to washing each other's feet? What happened to mourning with those who mourn and rejoicing with those who rejoice? We shouldn't expect to be effective if we can't even do these things. -I always think of the apostle John, I imagine him old and wrinkled, full of the Holy Spirit saying, "My children, -Love one another!" I think that kind of Love, -Godly Love, -the kind that moved Jesus to give up His life for us can be humiliating, uncomfortable, and hard. -But it glorifies God! All our moments of self-seeking and grasping will be lost. Only those precious (and in my own case relatively few) works done in humility, obedience, and love will last. Let's learn to be servants of all. I think this is where our American culture has really seeped into the Church here. It’s so easy to get so focused on what special thing the Lord has called ME to do, or what is good for “my ministry calling” that we forget that serving has nothing to do with ME. Jesus said that the least among us would be considered the greatest. Let’s not forget that to be a servant means to be humble, putting the needs of the body before our own and that our worldly notions of success and a stately career have absolutely nothing to do with what is of eternal, lasting value. What happened to washing each other’s feet? What happened to mourning with those who mourn and rejoicing with those who rejoice? We shouldn’t expect to be effective if we can’t even do these things. -I always think of the apostle John, I imagine him old and wrinkled, full of the Holy Spirit saying, “My children, -Love one another!” I think that kind of Love, -Godly Love, -the kind that moved Jesus to give up His life for us can be humiliating, uncomfortable, and hard. -But it glorifies God! All our moments of self-seeking and grasping will be lost. Only those precious (and in my own case relatively few) works done in humility, obedience, and love will last. Let’s learn to be servants of all.

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