What is the Serve Others pillar?
It is the Pillar that helps us look beyond ourselves to God and to those He has placed in our lives. Serving is a gift that we use in obedience to help meet the needs of others in ways that Glorify God Alone by:
Developing an understanding of Biblical instruction on serving.
Engaging in deliberately planned and spontaneous serving opportunities.
Serving God and others in every aspect of our Every-Day Ordinary Lives.
Understand what the Bible teaches about serving God and others.
- Study on Serving based upon https://www.gotquestions.org/
- What is serving, according to the Bible?
- Why should I want to serve God? https://www.gotquestions.org/serve-God.html
- Why is serving God important? https://www.gotquestions.org/serving-God.html
- Read and dig into the following Scripture: Rm 12:3-8, Mk 10:45, Jn 12:26, Mt 23:11, 1 Pet 4:10-11, 1 Sam 12:24, Heb 6:10
- Develop a list of people/areas in your life that you are in a position to serve. Begin praying about them. How are you feeling called to serve them?
- Identify areas within Four Mile or beyond that you can serve as part of a team where relationship building is the focus?
- Conduct an independent study on Serving. Using https://www.gotquestions.org/
Apply what you learned in month 1 to deliberately planned and spontaneous serving opportunities.
- Break into teams of 2-3 people and meet two times during the month either by phone, Zoom, or in person
- Discuss opportunities that God has given you to serve Him and others in the past week with your teammates
- Pray with your team for a servant heart, service opportunities, and the relationships that will be built
- Discuss the role that humility, joy, and gratitude play in developing the atmosphere you create when you serve
- Deliberately plan to serve someone in your sphere of influence two days during the week
- Spontaneously serve someone in your sphere of influence two days during the week
- Participate as a pillar in some serving capacity within the community
- Continue studying: Developing a Servant’s Heart by Charles Stanley: one chapter/week
Engage in serving God and others in your Every-day Ordinary Life.
- Switch teams and meet at least twice during the month; meet as a pillar once in month three
- Catch new teammates up on your progress to date and pray together for each other
- Continue deliberately and spontaneously serving those in your main sphere of influence
- Stop at least once each day to thank God and give Him the glory for the privilege of serving others each day
- Journal daily on the impact that you have witnessed when you respond in obedience to service opportunities
- Observe a Sabbath rest from serving at least one day during the week (does not have to be a Sunday)
- Continue studying: Developing a Servant’s Heart by Charles Stanley: one chapter/week
ENDSTATE
Glorify God by devoting ourselves to a life of serving God and others in our every-day ordinary life.