Chapter 4:
What is the criteria by which you evaluate your pastor(s)? Success? Influence? Giftedness? Membership? Attendance? Degrees? Speaking Engagements? Personality? According to verses 1-2 it should be servanthood and Paul gives 8 things that define a servant:
1) Faithfulness: (1-2) Believers have been given God’s Word and we have a responsibility to feed it to others.
2) Seeks to please God: (3-4) God is to be first & foremost on a servants mind – He is our Master! (Gal 1:10)
3) Not Judgmental: (5) A servant’s role is not as judge but servant – duh.
4) Doesn’t think too highly of self: (6-7) Pride is always a stumbling block to servanthood. We like calling ourselves servants until we are treated like one!
5) Humility: (8-13) Servants are willing to be counted as nothing for Christ. The Corinthians thought they had everything in themselves, Paul knew he had nothing in himself.
6) Produces spiritual children: (14-16) Paul loved these people as a father and led many of them to Jesus!
7) Teachable: (17) Whenever we become unteachable, we become unusable to God.
8) Confronts sin: (18-21) When we truly love someone, we will lovingly help them to see destructive issues, as hard as it can be.
SO WHAT?!
*How faithful are you & I with what God has given us:
Good health? Finances? Friends? The Good News of Jesus? Living in the USA? Gifts? Talents?
*Would your friends say that you are teachable or hard to teach? Says a lot about the ability God has to use us!
*Who are your spiritual kids- those whom you have helped know Jesus and are helping make Him known? What steps are you taking to conceive & give birth to spiritual kids? Why not start today and ask God to give you an opportunity to share Jesus with someone today?!
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