Get In The Game

“Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”   Matthew 20:26 - 28 (NIV) 

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. James 1:22 (NIV) 

WHY SHOULD I USE MY LIFE TO SERVE OTHERS?

I WAS CREATED TO SERVE 

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.   Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)

I AM SAVED TO SERVE 

He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.”   2 Timothy 1:9 (NIV)  

I AM CALLED TO SERVE 

He has saved us and called us to a holy life…   2 Timothy 1:9a (NIV)

I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.

Ephesians 4:1b (NIV)  

I AM GIFTED TO SERVE 

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.   1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)

I AM COMMANDED TO SERVE .

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.  And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!   Philippians 2:3 - 8 (NIV)

I AM A NECESSARY PART OF THE CHURCH FAMILY 

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

1 Corinthians 12:27 (NIV) 

I AM SERVING GOD WHEN I SERVE OTHERS 

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 

Colossians 3:23 - 24  (NIV)

I OWE EVERYTHING TO CHRIST 

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.   Romans 12:1 (NIV)

SERVING GIVES MEANING TO LIFE 

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.   Mark 8:35 (NIV)

Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.   1 Corinthians 15:58 (NIV)

I WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR MY SERVICE 

So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God. 

Romans 14:12 (NIV)

I WILL BE REWARDED FOR ETERNITY 

“Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!”   Matthew 25:23 (NIV)

HOW WILL YOU RESPOND?