“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength…Love your neighbor as yourself...” (Mark 12:30–31, NIV)

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you…” (Matthew 28:19–20, NIV)

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“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45, NIV)

“…got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.” (John 13:4-5, NIV)

“A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the student to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master…” (Matt. 10:24-25, NIV)

“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23, NIV)

2 Steps to Servanthood: 1.Prioritize Servanthood 2.Prepare for Servanthood

“…clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” (Col. 3:12, 14 NIV)

“ A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34-35 NIV)

“For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians 2:10 NIV)

Important Truth: We are saved to serve.

3 Results of Christian Service: 1.God’s Love is Seen “…Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.” (John 13:1, NIV)

3 Results of Christian Service: 2. Our Character is Tested

3 Results of Christian Service: 3. God is Glorified “Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to him as a living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That's the most sensible way to serve God.” (Romans 12:1, CEV)

4 Implications for FBC: 1.We are Called to Service 2.We must Prepare for Service 3.We must Serve while we Can 4.We must Depend on the Lord