- We are not a perfect church -We are not a perfect people -We are here because we know we need God s help and He has provided this help through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Accountability Questions Did you spend at least 5 minutes a day at least 5 days last week reading/hearing the Bible? Did you share a God story with someone this week? Did you spend time alone with God this week? What is the Holy Spirit is saying to you? Are you giving as God has asked you give? Did you invite someone to church with you this week (giving out an M&M)?
Matthew 5 14 You are the light of the world like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. 15 No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.
Mark 10 35 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came over and spoke to him. Teacher, they said, we want you to do us a favor. 36 What is your request? he asked. 37 They replied, When you sit on your glorious throne, we want to sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left. 38 But Jesus said to them, You don t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink? Are you able to be baptized with the baptism of suffering I must be baptized with? 39 Oh yes, they replied, we are able!
Mark 10 Then Jesus told them, You will indeed drink from my bitter cup and be baptized with my baptism of suffering. 40 But I have no right to say who will sit on my right or my left. God has prepared those places for the ones he has chosen. 41 When the ten other disciples heard what James and John had asked, they were indignant. 42 So Jesus called them together and said, You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them.
43 But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. 45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.
John 13 3 Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God. 4 So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, 5 and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples feet, drying them with the towel he had around him. 12 After washing their feet, he put on his robe again and sat down and asked, Do you understand what I was doing? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, because that s what I am. 14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other s feet. 15 I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you.
Luke 7 36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. 37 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. 38 Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them. 39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She s a sinner!
44 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You didn t greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume. 47 I tell you, her sins and they are many have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love. 48 Then Jesus said to the woman, Your sins are forgiven.
Action Steps Looking at your life whose model of Greatness have you been striving for? When is the last time you modeled the servant heart Jesus did in washing the disciples feet? Will you look for ways to be a servant this week at work? Home? School? Stores? Neighborhood.. Wherever God has placed you? But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else.