Matthew 20:26b-27 KJV

...whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

From Background Notes [BN] for February 2nd & 3rd written by Pastor Bob Brown:

We become servants, but we remain slaves. It is our true being, our true nature, as new-born children of the Father. And, unlike slaves of pagan masters, we gladly choose to be what we are.

 
In the days of Jesus, a servant might well earn the right of emancipation, and his master could choose to grant it, allowing the servant to freely go his way. But if a deep relationship had grown up between master and servant, the servant might request that his ear be pierced by the master, and a ring inserted placing him in life-long servitude to the master--not out of obligation, but from love. In the same way, once the disciple of Jesus chooses to lay aside the ordinary means of power, and adopts a servant role toward his fellows, he takes the next, more dramatic step, of binding himself forever in covenant love to his brothers and sisters in the Christ community.  [BN, 9]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
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