Comments on: To Remember That Stooping & Serving Is Beautiful

By: Louise

Louise — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:49:50 +0000

Servant is not a high-value word in our culture. I don’t expect it to trend on Twitter or go viral. It is a calling, a place we must choose to go. My sister has a servant’s heart. She is always on the lookout for the needs of others. She volunteers to drive seniors to the nearest town so they can shop or just socialize. Mostly so they can make meaningful connections. Her ways of caring and serving make me think of the biblical passage about the Lord caring if even a little sparrow falls from the sky.

By: Brian Dolleman

Brian Dolleman — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:20:29 +0000

Karelys – I completely agree with you. Love what you wrote: “When you’re secure in what you have and who you are that you don’t worry about doing things that don’t forward your cause to arrive at success.”

And this: “No sense in wasting precious days of our lives trying to forward a doomed cause – to become successful and then die and take nothing with us. Better just serve and do something that has an actual rate of return.”

Thanks for giving me something good to think about

By: Karelys

Karelys — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:01:46 +0000

This is absolutely too honest.

I think that when you’re secure in what you have and who you are that you don’t worry about doing things that don’t forward your cause to arrive at success.

Maybe that’s what the bible meant by saying that we’re children of God, heirs, and we have arrived. No sense in wasting precious days of our lives trying to forward a doomed cause – to become successful and then die and take nothing with us. Better just serve and do something that has an actual rate of return.

Ps. Not very many people will come clean and say what you just stayed about wanting to be a “successful pastor” because really it’s embarrassing to preach humility and be a proponent of servant hood but just using it to recruit workers for your own cause. Let’s hope this encourages more people to reexamine their true intentions and realize it’s a dead-end to think so.