What is Service?!

1. What is Service?!

2. Service is Love • Love that fills the heart • Love overflows • Result is: service • What is service without love?

3. Service is Love • Ideal service • loving those we serve, as God loves us • sacrificial love • Jn 13:1 – “having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.” • Jn 3:16 – “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

4. Service is Love • How to be an effective teacher? • Love! • The spiritual servant is • a beloved person • an emotional person • Matt 18:12 - “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?

5. Service is Love • Love in preparing lessons • Material that is loved by the students • Interesting – stories, facts • Beneficial • Mark 6:34 – “And Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. So He began to teach them many things.”

6. What is Service? • Love • Giving

7. Service is Giving • Giving out of love • Without compelling • Sun: gives light and warmth – to all

8. Service is Giving • Servant: gives love, knowledge, visitation, comfort, aid,… • to everyone • on every occasion • all the time • Acts 10:38 • “[He] went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil…”

9. Service is Giving • Everyone he meets – or God put in his way – he tried to lead to salvation • Paul and Agrippa • Acts 26:28-29 “Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You almost persuade me to become a Christian.”And Paul said, “I would to God that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become both almost and altogether such as I am, except for these chains.”

10. What is Service? • Love • Giving • Spiritual Food

11. Service is Spiritual Food • Spiritual food – to feed those served • Lk 12:42 • “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?” • Full-course meal • In one hour a week?! • St. Antony the Great • St. Peter’s sermon

12. What is Service? • Love • Giving • Spiritual Food • Holy Zeal

13. Service is Holy Zeal • A flame – Psalm 69:9 • “zeal for Your house has eaten me up” • Cloven tongues of fire • Zeal for the salvation of everyone • 2 Cor 11:29 - “Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?” • 1 Cor 9:22 – “to the weak I became asweak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some”

14. Service is Holy Zeal • The Good shephard • Jn 10: 11 - “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. • Ezk 34:15,16 - I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down, I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment.”

15. What is Service? • Love • Giving • Spiritual Food • Holy Zeal