Title: “Kingdom-Focused Service”

Main text: Mark 10:35-41

Supporting texts: Galatians 5:13; 1 Peter 4:10

Quotes:

"True service ministers simply and faithfully because there is a need. It knows that the ‘feeling to serve’ can often be a hindrance to true service.”

—Richard Foster

“More than any other single way, the grace of humility is worked into our lives through the discipline of service. Of all the classical spiritual disciplines, service is the most conducive to the growth of humility.” 

—Richard Foster

“When the Spirit of Jesus the Messiah comes to dwell in Christians, individually and corporately, this happens so that they can be—all together—the place where his genuinely human life actually and physically continues within the life of the present world.” —N.T. Wright