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Biblical Servanthood is an obsession of mine, not because I fully understand it nor because I am a good example. Rather it is because I am neither an expert nor an example. I struggle with serving every time and everyday. I believe that servanthood plays a major part in both worship, evangelism, and sanctification for every Christian. Unfortunately, with that conviction I could see how my life and attitude did not hold to that ideal and still does not in some major areas. So I wrote the book and this blog to remind and encourage me. I write to myself because I stink at being consistent with this and I hope others may benefit from my struggling and my preaching and questioning to myself. Most if all all resources I looked at were more focused on how servanthood enhanced leadership, as if serving were a mere precursor to leading. I started this website for me because I needed a cross-centered approach to servanthood not leadership.

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Servanthood is not an exclusive trait to Christianity or to the Bible. In fact, each one of us is not a neutral free agent sitting in the stands waiting to get into the game of servanthood. On the contrary, every one of us is an experienced and active participant engaging every day in all kinds acts of service. However rather than serving others or God’s interests, most of the time we are serving ourselves.

Instead of serving God, we serve idols of money, self-esteem, image, and career. We place our energy, hope, and trust into serving and nurturing them. They have become the masters of our affections and industry. However, none of those other concerns or interests is supposed to be the true motivating factors for Christian servanthood.

So what distinguishes Biblical Servanthood?

Biblical Servanthood is not about self-promotion or leadership, nor is it a way to appease a guilty conscious by commending one’s self to God. In opposition to those motivations, true Biblical Servanthood is primarily concerned with worshiping God. Merely being a servant and doing servant stuff is not the issue that defines and distinguishes Biblical servanthood.

While action is a vital ingredient to serving biblically, the major emphasis for Christians is found in the reason we serve, namely the person and work of Jesus. How we serve is defined, motivated, and made possible by whom we serve. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the starting place for defining a vision for serving biblically in and out of the local church. There can be no other starting points or competing motivations.

As Jesus points out in the Book of Matthew, we cannot serve both God and our own interests at the same time. "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” Matthew 6:24. Either we serve God or we are serving an entirely different master....

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