Session Two - A Servant Heart

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.

Session One – You Are God’s Masterpiece

This week starts our six week Community Group Campaign at Princeton Alliance Church. We are following a study called Developing Your SHAPE to serve others. This is an exciting time at PAC. We are being blessed with many new people coming to our church. Since March, over 500 new families have attended our services and have identified themselves to us. It is important and maybe overwhelming to think about challenges of connecting so many new people to our ministry and church family. The Community Group campaign is one effort to connect new people to our church family.

This week starts with our first session, "You are God's Masterpiece"! It is about realizing that God has created each of us uniquely for His purposes which are to draw all people unto Him. All of us are created uniquely different and equally important to meeting God’s purposes for our ministry in this area. The problem is that we mostly don’t believe that we are a masterpiece in any since of the word. It has been said that man’s deepest need is to be fully known and at the same time, fully loved. Most of us believe that if we were fully known no one would ever love us…thus begins all the misguided human games we play with each other to cope with the relationships in our lives.

Community Groups are intended to be safe places where all people in community can begin to believe that they can be more fully known and at the same time, be more completed accepted and loved by others.

You are a masterpiece, uniquely created in Jesus to do good things he has planned for us long go. That is what this six week series is about…to help you discover your SHAPE; Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, and Experiences so you can discover your own uniqueness and how it fits into God’s master plan for us.

Join us this first week and begin to discover that you too are one of God’s masterpieces!