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Consider Serving

Consider Serving. Biblical reasons for getting involved in ministry. Dictionary.com on “Serve”. to act as a servant. to wait on table, as a waiter. to offer or have a meal or refreshments available, as for patrons or guests: Come early, we’re serving at six.

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Consider Serving

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  1. Consider Serving Biblical reasons for getting involved in ministry.

  2. Dictionary.com on “Serve” • to act as a servant. • to wait on table, as a waiter. • to offer or have a meal or refreshments available, as for patrons or guests: Come early, we’re serving at six. • to offer or distribute a portion or portions of food or a beverage, as a host or hostess: It was her turn to serve at the faculty tea. • to render assistance; be of use; help.

  3. Dictionary.com on “Serve”… • to go through a term of service; do duty as a soldier, sailor, senator, juror, etc. • to have definite use: This cup will serve as a sugar bowl. • to answer the purpose: That will serve to explain my actions. • (in tennis, badminton, handball, etc.) to put the ball or shuttlecock in play with a stroke, swing, or hit. • to be favorable, suitable, or convenient, as weather or time. • Ecclesiastical. to act as a server.

  4. The Bible on “Serve” • There are 279verses using the word serve in the Bible. • Let’s take a look at some to get a feel it’s use in the scriptures…

  5. Scriptures using “Serve” • Genesis 1:14And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, • Genesis 29:20So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

  6. Scriptures using “Serve” • Numbers 26:10The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire devoured the 250 men. And they served as a warning sign. • Deuteronomy 6:13Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name.

  7. Scriptures using “Serve” • Joshua 22:5But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to obey his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and all your soul."

  8. Scriptures using “Serve” • Judges 10:13But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you. • Matthew 4:10Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'

  9. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • (35-37) James and John request positions of status. • The place of honor is the seat on the right, and next to it, the seat on the left (1 Kings 2:19, Psalm 110:1). They were asking for the "number one" and the "number two" places in Jesus' administration. • This is no doubt an outgrowth of the continual topic of conversation among the disciples: which one among them was the greatest (Mark 9:33-34).

  10. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • (38-41) Jesus' reply: think in terms of sacrifice, not self-glory. • You do not know what you ask: Since James and John still worked under carnal ideas regarding the kingdom of God, they really had no idea what it would take to be great in the kingdom - but not because Jesus hadn't told them!

  11. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • Are you able to drink the cup that I drink: As it would turn out, both James and John took the cup and were baptized in suffering, but they each experienced it in different ways. • James was the first apostle to be martyred (Acts 12:1-2). According to tradition, John was never martyred, though he survived an attempt to kill him by immersion in a vat of boiling oil (according to reasonably reliable church history).

  12. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • "In popular Greek usage the vocabulary of baptism was used to speak of being overwhelmed by disaster or danger, and a similar metaphorical use of submersion is present in Scripture." (Lane) Passages like Psalm 42:7, Psalm 49:3, and Psalm 69:2 reflect this idea.

  13. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • You will indeed drink the cup that I drink: When Jesus said this, perhaps a big smile came over the face of James and John. They thought they had won something, and so did the other disciples (when the ten heard it, they began to be greatly displeased with James and John). However, it is doubtful that Jesus smiled, because He knew what the baptism they asked for was all about.

  14. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • (42-45) Jesus describes true greatness. • Those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them: Their desire for position and status showed they didn't know the nature of Jesus yet, in respect to leadership and power. Those who exercise power or authority in the church today as "lording it over" others still don't understand the Jesus style of leadership and life.

  15. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • Yet it shall not be so among you is a stinging rebuke to the manner in which the modern church looks to the world for both its substance and style. Plainly, the church isn't to operate the way the world does. • Whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant: In the Kingdom community, status, money, popularity are not the prerequisites for leadership. Humble service is the greatest (and only) prerequisite, as displayed by Jesus' own ministry.

  16. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve: Real ministry is done for the benefit of those ministered to, not for the benefit of the minister. Many people are in the ministry for what they can receive (either materially or emotionally) from their people instead of for what they can give.

  17. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • And to give His life a ransom for many: This is one of the great claims Jesus made about Himself and His ministry. He is the one who stands in the place of guilty sinners, and offers Himself as a substitute for them.

  18. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • "The ransom metaphor sums up the purpose for which Jesus gave his life and defines the complete expression of his service. The prevailing notion behind the metaphor is that of deliverance by purchase, whether a prisoner of war, a slave, or a forfeited life is the object to be delivered. Because the idea of equivalence, or substitution, was proper to the concept of a ransom, it became an integral element in the vocabulary of redemption in the OT. It speaks of a liberation which connotes a servitude or an imprisonment from which man cannot free himself." (Lane)

  19. Consider Serving (Mark 10:35-45) • Reflecting Thoughts: • There is no such thing as free, so choose who you will serve. • Often times it’s when we serve others that we find the greatest fulfillment. • You are a minister too.

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