October 17, 2004
Grace for True Greatness
Scripture Passage: Matthew 5:17-20
Supportive Scriptures: Mt 22:34; 19:16; 20:27; 1:1-3
Background Information:
Every bookstore seems to have a large section of self-help
books all telling us how to be great, become a success, be assertive,
and grow rich. Infomercials push the same themes at us – all for
as low as $19.95! In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus gives us His definition
of how to be great. It is quite different from the self-help books and
the late night TV bargain courses – and different from what TV evangelists
sell from gold-plated chairs as the Gospel of Health, Wealth, and Prosperity.
(You may want to replace titles or shorten the list of book
titles in the introduction.)
The Introduction
Not long ago, a famous boxer made the claim that that he
was the greatest. For a while, in the ring, he was. No longer.
Late night TV advertisers say we can learn the secrets to
wealth and entrepreneurial success for the expenditure of only a few hundred
dollars.
We salivate over the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
For the right investment, we can learn the secrets of eternal
youth and beauty.
All of these and a hundred more such programs and schemes
appeal to the current American craze for greatness and success.
Or, take a look in the bookstore. We find titles like:
DRESS FOR SUCCESS
POWER BASE -- How to Build and Maintain One
THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Makes you a winner everytime
THE ULITMATE SECRETS OF TOTAL SELF-CONFIDENCE
YOUR PERFECT RIGHT
HAVING IT ALL -- Life, Success, Sex, Money
THE SEEDS OF GREATNESS
THINK AND GROW RICH
WINNING THROUGH INTIMIDATION
HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE
THE ART OF SELFISHNESS -- Fill your life with success.
"Selfishness is a term used by people who want to manipulate you."
HOW TO HAVE IN A HAVE NOT WORLD
Have exactly what you want, When you want it, All the time.
(This last book written by a TV preacher!)
I am not suggesting that all these books are bad. But they
do reflect our pre-occupation with power, wealth, greatness, achievement,
and success.
Nor has the church escaped this onslaught. Much of evangelicalism
(especially of the electronic variety) has become obsessed with the theology
of success and prosperity.
They preach that God's will is for everybody to be happy,
healthy, and wealthy all the time.
Put in a quarter, pull the knob, and get anything you want
from this vending machine god.
Use the right phrases when you pray and you can bend the
will of God to your own.
Invoke the magic formulas and you can ward of evil and guarantee
success in all you do.
As long as two of us agree, we can make God do our will
instead of His will.
What a far cry from the message of the lowly Nazarene who
had no place to lay His head; who was laughed out of His home town, and
was betrayed by His friends.
Jesus does, however, have quite a bit to say about greatness.
In fact, in Matthew's Gospel, we find a clear outline about how to achieve
it and what it looks like. Before we buy the world's message, maybe we
ought to stop and listen to what Jesus Himself said about the way to be
great.
The Body
1. JESUS SAYS, THE WAY TO BE GREAT IS TO BE OBEDIENT
Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments
and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom
of heaven;
but whoever practices and teaches these commands
will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:19
Jesus made it rather clear. He expects obedience. It is
part of greatness. . Some preach a Gospel of moral license, even though
Paul warned against it. Jesus says, “Not in my Kingdom.” It
is always about obedience.
Our society seems to send the opposite message. Those who
are great by the world’s standards often act as if they are above
the law. If you are great enough, or famous enough, or rich enough, or
powerful enough, you don't have to obey any longer. Drug laws, ethical
standards, tax legislation, traffic restrictions, even natural laws of
the physical universe – all the laws that govern others, just don't
apply to you. And, if necessary, you can always buy a lawyer who will
get you off. We think somehow that if we're great enough we are immune
to the laws.
Listen to us talking to our children. “As long as you
live in this house and put your feet under my table who will keep the
rules.” We know what we mean, but it sounds like we are implying
that when you grow up and move out you won't have to keep the rules any
longer.
But the laws do apply. And so we read the headlines of a
politician whose future is ruined, of an athlete whose career is cut short,
a corporate executive that is disgraced, and of a family torn apart because
someone thought they were above the law.
Jesus made it clear -- to be great means learning obedience.
His message is not like what the world tells us – that the greater
you get or the older you get or the richer you get or the more powerful
you get the less obeying you have to do. Instead, Jesus says, if you want
to be great, learn to obey. We are saved by grace to enable us to live
obediently from grateful hearts.
In His final words to His disciples, He stated it again.
“If you love me, you will obey what I command.” (John 14:15)
Samuel told Saul that “obedience is better than sacrifice.”
Real love is not being willing to apologize after you break the rules
or to admit your guilt after you are caught. Real love is learning to
obey in the first place, thus avoiding the consequences of disobedience.
Some parents sent their son to a Christian school so he
would escape the bad morals his parents feared were present in the public
school system. When his mother caught him lying, he replied, “Oh,
I leaned at school that it's alright to lie if I am a Christian, because
Jesus forgives me.” Such theological inversions and convolutions
can be picked up even by children and seem convenient to many. But Jesus
does not exempt anyone. Grace does not eliminate obedience.
We have called it “The Great Commission”. It is
Jesus' last command to His followers. We are to go and make disciples,
teaching and baptizing them. Sometimes we read that verse as though it
said, “teaching them all things I have commanded you” as if
our task were to teach about Christ. What it really says is, "teaching
them to obey". That means that our task as preachers or Sunday School
teachers or as parents is not done when we have dispensed the information
about Jesus. It isn't done until lives are transformed – until we
have taught others to obey the commands of Christ, not just to know about
them or to understand them. Any “gospel” that teaches that all
you need to do is to know about Jesus and accept him into your heart and
then you can live like you please is not the gospel of Christ. He calls
us to conformity to His will. He calls us to obedience. He calls us to
teach obedience.
From the beginning of His teaching to the end, Jesus clearly
stated that greatness, as far as He is concerned, includes obedience.
And that is what Jesus modeled as well.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: DO YOUR OWN THING!
Jesus whispers: Obey.
2. JESUS SAYS, THE WAY TO BE GREAT IS TO BE LOVING
(see also Lk 6:35)
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees
heard got together.
One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this
question.
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the
law?”
Jesus replied, “Love the Lord your God with all your
heart,
and with all your soul and with all your mind.
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And a second is like it: love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 22:34-39
Many in our day have been hurt enough that they have decided
not to risk loving anymore. Others have grown up without any of their
love languages being spoken to them and without learning how to “speak”
love to others. Love is seen as wimp-ish rather than strong. Expressing
affection is seen as a sign of weakness and emotional sappiness. Jesus
says, “Not in my Kingdom.” It is always about love – Love
for God and love for each other.
In an interview on TV, a woman who had recently been divorced
said, “I have decided that I never want to be dependent on anyone
else again and I never want anyone else to ever be dependent on me!”
What a lonely way to live. What a love-less way to live. What a miserable
way to live. We are not made to live that way. We have a need to be loved.
We have an equal need to give love.
But isn't that so much the mood of our times. No commitments.
Nothing binding, just whatever is convenient for me at the moment. Nothing
that will make any demands on me. Nothing that will tie me down. Somehow,
in these days in which we live, we have grown away from love. We are too
busy. We don't want to be involved. We can't stand the risks. We don't
want to get hurt.
After all, the more people you love, the more times they
will let you down and the more often you will be disappointed. It means
you will shed more tears and visit more hospital rooms and attend more
funerals.
But it also means you will participate in more weddings, and bounce more
babies on your knee and laugh more often and receive more Christmas cards.
Love has its risks but love also has its rewards.
Jesus said, if you want to be great, you have to love.
Jesus said that greatness includes cultivating the ability
to love – to love God and to love others. We all need to love God
more. We all need to love others more.
Sometimes, our concept of loving others starts farther away
from home than it should. Why is it that we give the members of our own
families the least and worst parts of our day? Why do we measure our love
by the size of our financial gifts to mission projects? Why do we excuse
our worst behavior because it is only experienced by those at home? Why
are we more concerned about how we look and act to strangers than about
how we look and act to those we love the most?
When a guest came to dinner, the wife served the dessert
and said, “I'm glad you came today. This is my husband's favorite
pie and I'm glad I had an excuse to make it. I never do otherwise.”
And I wondered to myself why the very fact that her husband liked it wasn't
excuse enough.
Jesus said if you want to be great, then be loving. Love
God, love those around you, love those closest to you.
Maybe we need to recapture the ability to love and to express love. Probably
the place to start is right within the four walls of our own homes. Our
love for God certainly ought to increase the level of love and quality
of love in our families. If our faith doesn't transform love there, it
won't work anywhere else either. Our world really needs homes where God's
love is channeled into every loving relationship. That love in turn will
begin to spill out into the lives of others.
Do you remember the hot air popcorn poppers? The directions
said, “Do not leave unattended.” If you ever did you probably
returned and found that the popcorn had overflowed the bowl and spread
out over the counter, and spilled onto the floor.
In Philippians 1:9, Paul calls for a love that will “abound
more and more” -- like a popcorn popper run wild. Imagine. An unending
supply of kernels flows in one end. The warmth of the interior causes
the kernels to pop -- effervescently -- joyously -- continuously. Pouring
out of the spout, they soon fill the bowl, surround the canister set,
cover the toaster, and fill the sink. Soon they have packed the kitchen,
forced their way into the living room, pushed out the doors and windows,
flowing down the walk and over the fence into the neighbor's yard!
That's the way love should be. Abounding more and more and more. Effervescent,
joyous, continuous. Filling every nook and cranny. Spilling out into the
lives of others.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: TAKE ADVANTAGE!
Jesus whispers: Love.
3. JESUS SAYS, THE WAY TO BE GREAT IS TO BE A GIVER
(The following point overlaps with the concept of letting
go of things in the previous sermon.)
Now a man came to Jesus and asked,
“Teacher, what good thing must I do, to get eternal
life?”
“Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus
replied.
“There is only One who is good. If you want to enter
life, obey the commandments.”
“Which ones?” the man inquired.
Jesus replied, “Do not murder, do not commit adultery,
do not steal,
do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,
and, love your neighbor as yourself.”
“All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What
do I still lack?”
Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell
your possessions and give to the poor,
and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow
me.”
When the young man heard this he went away sad. because
he had great wealth.
Matthew 19:16-22
Jesus said, “If you want to be great, be a giver. “
The world measures success by how much you can acquire; how grand the
house; how expensive the car. Most of us spend a lot of time worrying
about what we will eat and drink and wear. Jesus says, “Not in my
Kingdom.” It is always about giving.
In Matthew 14:13 and following we read the story of a little
boy who was the only guy who showed up at the meeting that day with a
lunch. And at the end of the day some big guy wanted to take that lunch
away. And he let him have it. He could have been selfish and filled his
stomach, instead he was “great” and 2,000 years later we're
still talking about it. He gave up what was his by rights and because
he did, God performed a miracle. 5,000 people ate and when they were done
there was at least 12 times as much left over as they had when they started.
Our other story is the 19th Chapter of Matthew.
There was a young man who came to Jesus who was a rich young
ruler and he said, “I want the greatest prize of all. I want to know
how to get eternal life. How do I inherit the kingdom of Heaven?”
Jesus said, “If you want that, then obey.” Sound familiar? The
man said, “I have obeyed -- from my childhood up.” Jesus said,
“Okay, then give. Go sell everything you have and give it to the
poor and come follow me.” And he went away sorrowful.
We think that the reason for people's sorrow and misery
is that they are poor, not rich.
But he was rich and he was still sorrowful.
We think it is because people are downtrodden and they're
not at the top of the ladder – that if we could just get them farther
up the ladder they would be happy.
But he was a ruler. And he still went away sorrowful.
We think that sadness comes because we are getting old and
life is running out.
He was young with life ahead of him and he was sorrowful.
The only thing that made him sorrowful was that he was unable
to give. Jesus said, “If you want to be great be a giver.”
We don't say that in our world do we? We say the way to
be great is to accumulate -- to live the lifestyle of the rich and famous.
The more you get the better off you are and the better you are. There
has been a popular bumper sticker on cars that says:
The one who dies with the most toys, wins.
Materialism is the code of our day and greatness is measured
by how much you accumulate. Jesus said greatness is based on what you
give away. Someone heard a man talking some time ago about things he had
ought to relax with. You know, the swimming pool, and a hammock, and all
the other stuff -- the house in the suburbs, the yard and all of that.
He said, “I spend all of my time mowing the lawn, and cleaning the
pool. I never get the chance to use the pool. I spend all my time and
money cleaning it up. He said the stuff isn't my possession, it owns me
and runs my life.”
Jesus said if you want to be great you have to give. That
is not what the world says. The world says, “accumulate, hang on
to it, look out for number one”. Grab it tightly in your fists and
pile it up – and die. John Wesley said, “Make all you can, save
all you can, GIVE all you can.”
Jesus said if you want to be great, be obedient.
If you want to be great, be loving.
If you want to be great, be a giver.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: ACQUIRE!
Jesus whispers: Give.
4. JESUS SAYS, THE WAY TO BE GREAT IS TO BE LIKE A CHILD
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked,
“Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
He called a little child and had him stand among them. And
he said:
“I tell you the truth, unless you change and become
like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore,
whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom
of heaven.”
Matthew 18:1-4, NIV
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who
is the greatest?” Jesus did not say Mohammed Ali. He called a little
child and had him stand among them and said, “I tell you the truth,
unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter
the kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, he who humbles himself like this child
is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven.” Jesus said if you want
to be great, be like a child. Society seems to believe that to be successful
you must always have the answers, be thick-skinned, and be cynical. Jesus
says, “Not in my Kingdom.” It is always about childlikeness.
It’s hard to know all that is wrapped up in that statement, but there
are three things that perhaps are suggested by this thought.
Jesus knew that a child is -- Tender.
You prick a baby with a thorn and it will bleed. You prick
most of us old codgers with a thorn and about all it does is break the
thorn off. Real men “don't eat quiche” and they don't cry --
but a child is tender.
A mother sat near her toddler son in church. Somewhere in
the course of that service she was moved by what was being sung or said
and the tears began to roll down her cheeks. Her son saw that from three
rows back and came running up the aisle and slipped in beside her and
wrapped his arms around her neck and patted her and tried to comfort her.
He didn't understand what was going on, but someone he loved was crying.
That touched him -- because children are tender. They care when they see
somebody else hurt. Jesus said, if you want to be great be like a child.
We may not know all that Jesus meant by His statement, but
it may also include the fact that a child is -- Teachable.
During the terrible twos, the dominant words of a child
seem to be “no” and “mine”. Then comes the age when
the child says “why” and “how”. Why is the sun outside?
Why is the grass green? How do you wash a car? Can you teach me how to
make cookies? And they want to do and learn about everything they see
about them. Not even the Holy Spirit could teach some of us old dogs new
tricks! But a child is teachable; eager to learn, willing to try. And
Jesus said if you want to be great be like a child.
We may not understand all that Jesus meant by what He said,
but it probably includes the fact that a child is tender, a child is teachable,
and a child is -- Trusting.
Have you seen her jump into the deep end of the pool? --
no fear; because daddy's there. Or jump off the stone wall into mother's
arms.
There was a story a while ago about a father who stood his
kid on the wall and said “jump” and let him fall on his face.
He put him back on the wall and said, “jump” and let him fall
on his face. He put him on the wall again said “Jump, I'll catch
you”, and let him fall on his face. He said, “There, let that
be a lesson to you. Don't you ever trust anybody.”
That's not what God wants us to learn. He wants us to be
trusting – to be able to trust one another, and most of all to put
our trust in Him.
Dr. Sidney Martin often told the following story about one
of Scotland's greatest preachers, Alexander McLaren. He was born in a
village about three miles outside of the city boundaries of Glasgow. As
a boy and a teenager and well into his later life, he was plagued by an
inherent dread of the darkness. At age fourteen he found work in the city
center of Glasgow in an office there. That office was some seven miles
from his home and for his convenience it was planned that he should live
with relatives in the center of the city throughout the week and come
home for weekends. Before he left home to begin his new job, Alexander
McLaren said, “My father declared that I was to be home on Saturday
night. We'll have to be all here ready to worship in the House of the
Lord on the Sabbath Day. When my father gave me that commandment, I began
to cringe.” This was the November time of the year and there were
no four-day weeks in those days. Alex had to walk on a Saturday and he
didn't finish work till five o'clock. By that time it was pitch black
and he had seven miles to walk home in the darkness. And with that prospect
in mind he said to his father, “Dad can't I stay with my aunt and
uncle on Saturday night and I'll walk home Sunday morning and I'll be
home in plenty of time for service.” The father said, “No Alex.
Nobody travels in this house on the Lord's day. You will be here on Saturday
night.” Alexander McLaren said, “as I contemplated that walk,
that seven mile walk in the dark, my heart failed within me. But, as I
walked the four miles or so from the city center to the boundary, it wasn't
too bad. The city streetlights were lit. When I came to the boundary there
was nothing ahead but black darkness. But I plucked up my courage and
walked on until I came to a certain spot on the road. And at that spot
the road dipped down into what was known locally as the haunted glen."
He said that even in broad daylight it was gloomy and eerie walking through
the haunted glen. And he said, "that night I stood on the verge of
the glen and every bit of courage I ever had evaporated. I stood there
with my knees knocking. I dare not set another foot. And to add to my
discomfort, I heard footsteps approaching out of the haunted glen. My
fear knew no bounds until little by little I began to recognize something
vaguely familiar about those footsteps and out of the gloom of the haunted
glen there emerged the figure of my father. And he said, ‘Good evening
Alex. I thought I'd just take a wee walk before supper.’” But
Alexander McLaren said later “I learned from my mother that that
walk had been planned well ahead. My father was waiting for me in the
haunted glen till he heard my footsteps. And that night as my father turned
his heel and thrust his arm through mine, I'd have gone through the haunted
glen had it been peopled with all the demons out of hell. My father was
with me. And that night,” Alexander McLaren said, “I learned
something about my dad I never realized before. To me he had always been
a kind of a tyrant, a paternal dictator. But that night I realized that
he was my father and he loved me. He knew my fears. He knew my weakness.
He knew my inward shrinking as I contemplated what lay ahead.” And
friends, that's the kind of God we have. That is why we have never to
fear.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: GROW UP!
Jesus whispers: Be like a child.
5. JESUS SAYS, THE WAY TO BE GREAT IS TO BE A SERVANT
Jesus called them together and said,
“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over
them,
and their high officials exercise authority over them.
Not so with you.
Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
and whoever wants to be first must be your slave –
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve,
and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Matthew 20:25-28, NIV
The greatest among you will be your servant.
Matthew 23:11, NIV
In almost every society servants (Jesus used the word slave.)
are the lowest on the social ladder. Jesus said that leaders usually lord
it over others. People from some nations say, “We are free. We have
never been conquered by anyone. We will not be servants.” People
from nations that have been conquered and exploited say, “We are
tired of being subjugated. We will not be servants ever again.” No
one wants to be a servant. Instead, we measure greatness by how many servants
you have or how many people report to us on the job. Jesus says, “Not
in my Kingdom.” It is always about being servants.
Jesus said the way to be great is to be a servant. In this
passage we find James, John, and their mother coming to Jesus. One wants
to be on the right hand and one wants to be on the left hand (Secretary
of State and Secretary of Defense), when Jesus comes into the Kingdom.
Jesus said, “You don't have the right to ask that and I don't have
the right to give it to you.” Notice how he says it in verse 25.
Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of
the gentiles lord it over them. In their eyes they shall exercise authority
over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among
you must be your servant and whoever wants to be first must be your slave
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give
His life for ransom for many.” In chapter 23:11 you find it stated
again. The greatest among you will be your servant. And notice, He does
not say we have become HIS servants. We are not to become HIS slaves.
(Although that is also true.) We become each others’ servants.
We don't mind becoming God's slaves, but the idea of my
becoming your slave, that is something else. But Jesus said, if you want
to be great you must become a servant. Do you see why this world is upside
down? Because in our world, the greater you become, the less people you
serve and the more people serve you. You move up to foreman and “they”
take the orders. And you send them for coffee and you let them do the
difficult stuff and you sit and wait till its done and give the directions
and the orders. That's the sign of greatness. How many people obey you
or serve you, not how many you obey or how many you serve.
But Jesus said if you want to be great in my kingdom you
become a servant. You become the slave of all. And Jesus did it. He took
a towel and basin and washed feet. Most of us would say, “Lord, I
don't do feet.” He did feet. He said, in effect, “I am telling
you something about the Greatest in my Kingdom. You call me Lord and you
are right when you call me Lord. And If I am Lord and Master and wash
your feet then you ought to wash each others feet.”
And we need to understand that this business of being a
servant doesn't just mean doing servant things. It really means having
the spirit of servanthood. There's a difference between an attitude of
servanthood and the typical way of complaining while doing all the dirty
work and letting everybody know how much you hate doing it. “Do you
understand?” Jesus said, “I call you to servanthood.” To
willingly be a slave to all -- that's greatness.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: BE THE BOSS!
Jesus whispers: Be a servant.
The Conclusion
You see, it all comes down to the fact that the essence
of greatness is the quality of our character and the kind of persons we
are – not in the things that we do or the titles after our names
– or in all the rest, but in how much like Jesus we have become.
In His Kingdom, if you want to be great, be obedient. Be a servant. Be
loving. Be giving. Be like a child.
There was a man some years ago that who had power and success
and fame and wealth. But there are few who would say that Adolph Hitler
was “great”. There was, on the other hand, a little withered
old lady who spent all of her time with dying people in the ghettos of
the cities of India. For a long time nobody knew her. She didn't have
much money, and she wasn’t great to look at. But when Mother Theresa
walked into the room, royalty stood.
If you search for the greatness of the world and pursue
and strive for it, it brings turmoil and conflict. But when you strive
for the kind of greatness that Christ desires it brings peace. Do you
see why I say that God really wants to turn our lives upside down? And
yet, even we who are Christians end up living our lives in the day to
day process of things pretty much like the world around us. And pretty
much like that world dictates. And pretty much by that world's standards.
Don't we? But if we let Him turn us upside down then everyone will think
that we look kind of funny going through life on our heads. Maybe. Yet
maybe looking at the world in the ankles is to be looking at Christ in
the eye. And you will find out that He and those who have listened to
him are the only ones who really live life right side up. -- because it’s
world that’s upside down. Listen and you will hear the world shouting:
THE WORLD SHOUTS: ASSERT YOURSELF! Jesus whispers: Submit.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: TAKE ADVANTAGE! Jesus whispers: Love.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: ACQUIRE! Jesus whispers: Give.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: GROW UP! Jesus whispers: Be a child.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: BE THE MASTER! Jesus whispers: Be a servant.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: DO YOUR OWN THING! Jesus whispers: Obey.
THE WORLD SHOUTS: MANIPULATE! Jesus whispers: Serve
THE WORLD SHOUTS: SEX! Jesus whispers: Love
THE WORLD SHOUTS: SELF! Jesus whispers: Others
That's the way to be great. God calls us to that with a
still small voice. Are we quiet enough to hear what he says about the
standards of greatness? About the measuring sticks of life? Have we tuned
out the boom box and the television and the advertising of Madison Avenue
and let Jesus whisper the priorities of life? Are we Christians in name
only and living like the world or have we really come to him and let him
have everything and turn our lives upside down? If we're really like his
disciples then we have to let him do it. Even if the world thinks we look
weird.
This kind of grace, when it is lived out in our lives, does
indeed turn life upside down.
May God help us to change our –
Rebellion into Obedience
Self-indulgence into Love
Selfishness into Generosity
Demanding in to Servanthood
and to become more child-like.
That would be great indeed!!
Possible Songs:
SL # 541 Jesus Calls Us
SL # 487 I am Resolved
SL # 208 I Want to be Like Jesus
SL # 490 Oh to be Like Thee
SL # 679 The Servant Song
SL # 535 Make Me a Servant
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