Quotes about Service

First, as should be clear by now, I believe that dispensing God's grace is the Christian's main contribution

Where is the church when it hurts? If the church is doing its job—binding wounds, comforting the grieving, offering food to the hungry—I don't think people will wonder so much where God is when it hurts. They'll know where God is: in the presence of God's people on earth.

God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served. Six times in the Gospels Jesus iterated the deeper truth that we succeed not by acquiring more and more but by "losing" life through service to God and others.

Let me see them as thirsty people, I pray, and teach me how best to present the Living Water.

God uses the talent pool available. None lived without sin and embarrassing failures. Yet somehow God used them to advance the cause of the kingdom.

the kingdom of God largely exists for the sake of outsiders, as a tangible expression of God's love for all.

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

I do "good works" for my wife not in order to earn credit but to express my love for her. Likewise, God wants me to serve "in the new way of the Spirit": not out of compulsion but out of desire.

Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.

The phrase "the body of Christ," expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The

When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.