Reconciled with Christ and With Each Other: ”What it Takes to Serve Others Well”

COVENANT STATEMENT #4: To serve one another by following the example of Jesus Christ ensuring others are seen, heard, and cared for as deeply valued members of God’s family and this church.

Mark 10:45

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"

JOHN BUNYAN: You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

JOHN WESLEY: One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbor; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.

JOHN WESLEY: Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all the people you can as long as ever you can

LOOK constantly to Jesus

1 Peter 4:1-5

Hebrews 12:1-3

LISTEN thoughtfully to the Gospel message

1 Peter 4:6-7

1 Corinthians 1:22-25

LOVE others enthusiastically

1 Peter 4:8-11

THOMAS MERTON: “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”