God has blessed each and every one of us with a purpose. A God filled purpose. As Christians we are to serve and make disciples of all nations. But how are we serving? Serving is part of our faith. In James 2:17 it says, " So you see, faith by itself isn't enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless." WE ARE TO SERVE! Having faith and living for Christ on a daily basis isn't just believing but also acting upon it. We have been blessed with God's grace and mercy that we have our salvation. But to live for Christ and live like Christ we are to serve and embrace being servants. We are not to just get spiritually fed ourselves but to also invest in others and serve our community because that is who we need to love. "impression without expression equals depression."- Rick Warren. I was at Saddleback one time and Rick Warren was speaking about how joy is the number one thing we can loose quickly. We are loose our joy simply by someone not calling or a bad hair cut. However the number one thing to recover our joy is serving others. There are so many opportunities to serve and it is a HUGE need!
What is your passion? What is your purpose? What are you being called to? My personal passion is evangalism. I have been so blessed to be given the opportunity to serve in Young Life and share the love of Christ. These High School kids just need to be loved! Serving has been such a growing experience. It's so much different serving for Christ than it is to follow Christ. ITS SO AWESOME! I have grown spiritually so much because of Young Life and I am helping grow the kingdom of the Lord.
I really feel God put this on my heart and I just want everyone to know that there is such a need to serve! I am making a short 10-15 min video of giving the opportunity to serve. I want to do a short interviews of different ministries, organizations and people and ask what is their purpose and how are they pursuing it? I want people to be able to KNOW that there are opportunities to serve. For example, Young Life's dream or purpose is to walk alongside teenagers and spread the word of the Lord. I want to document how that organization has been pursuing that dream like young life would be "we run a club at a house for high schoolers and earn the right to be heard by hanging out with them... .( you get the gist) I want people to be like WOW I CAN contribute to that dream of Young Life... In can volunteer! etc.
But I also want people to know that they can be a servant by just the simple act of contributing a shoe.. for example, my friend Sarah was telling me this story of how when she was in the Ukraine, these two boys wanted to be a pro soccor player. These boys would play with no shoes. One day at the market she saw soccor shoes and surprised them with the shoes but didnt tell them she bought it. They treated the shoes like they were gold. They would clean the shoes every time after they played and stuck them perfectly in the box.
My vision is to make this short video or even youtube it and pass it out to missionaries in Bali as well as small groups, youth groups, just to get the word out that as Christians, we are to serve and make disciples of all nations that there is a need to serve and there are organizations they can contribute to but as well as just be a good light wherever they are. I see so many people that think by going to bible study and church that they are serving, however, i want to give them the opportunity to make a difference and share some different organizations that they can contribute in.
Paul wrote, "For to me, living means living for Christ, and dying is even better. But if I live, I can do more fruitful work for Christ."- Philippians 1:21
How are you serving? Get Involved.
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