This is week two of our six week sermon series, “Develop Your SHAPE to Serve Others”. Our weekend pulpit messages are coordinated to compliment our weekly study topics in our Community Groups. The weekend pulpit messages focus on “why” we serve. Our Community Group studies during the week then focuses on “how” we serve.
This week’s topic is developing a servant’s heart from Jesus’ perspective in Mark 10: 42-45 which is shown to the right with emphasis’ added.
Last week we learned that we are God’s Masterpiece down to every last minute detail. One discussion in our group dealt with what it meant to be “fearfully” and wonderfully made from Psalms 139: 13-16. We are not made to be fearful. Fear in the Bible many times means fear of God in terms of the feeling of awe. Awe is “an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, and extremely powerful.” When we come to the realization that God fully accepts us and fully loves us at the same time and has created us for good works we can start to look at ourselves in awe as a masterpiece, something with priceless value to God and to mankind. If we can grasp this, we can fearfully worship God for what He has accomplished in us.
Since we are God’s masterpiece made for good works to worship God and serve man, we can look at Jesus’ example of how to serve, with a servant’s heart…selfless servant hood. We serve Jesus by serving His people. This week as you study how develop a servant’s heart to serve others, think of the world’s view of being great, significant, respected, valued and then think of Jesus’ model for serving in God’s Kingdom, as a masterpiece of God.
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