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I’m currently writing a 5-week discipleship course for folk within our children work. Here are the titles for each session:
DELIGHT. Finding true delight in a world of cheap imitations
GLORY. Finger painting for the glory of God
CROSS. The cross-shaped life
IDENTITY. Who am I?
SERVANTHOOD. The upside down kingdom
As part of my research I’ve just reread Bill Hybels book ‘The Volunteer Revolution’. What a suburb book! It is short and easly accessible, but filled with some great truths about team, servanthood all firmly rooted in the mission of the local church. Here are just a few of quotes:
“I have never done a single thing of value without the assistance of others.” (p. 9)
“We love, serve, and care for others because that us normal behavior for people who are filled with God’s Spirit. We are Christians. Christ was the ultimate servant. We can’t help but serve because the Spirit of the Servant has filled our hearts. When we serve we are just being who we naturally are.” – Steve Sjogren (p. 35)
“Jesus, our Lord and Teacher, took the very nature of a servant. Here Paul challenges us to a new perspective. He calls us not just to momentary emotional hype, but to a crisp, intellectual understanding of what Jesus models for us. He asks us to allow the Holy Spirit to renew our minds so that our reflex reaction at home, work, at church, and in our community is humble service to God and people.” (p. 42)
