My Summer Happy Place
Highlights:
1. Serve:
J – Jesus
O – Others
Y- Yourself
2. It is in the nature of man to ultimately serve something.As Christians we are to choose to serve the Lord.
3. It is our privilege to use our freedom to choose to serve each other.
4.Our body is tobe a slave to our spirit. We have a purpose to which our body is to be a servant.
Discussion Questions:
1.What brings you joy in your life? Howare joy and hapiness different?
2. What service opportunities have you been a part of lately that cost you but were ultimately a privilege to be a part of?
3.What areas of your life need to come into agreement with the truth that you are a slave of Christ?
Key Scriptures:
-In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts 20:35 NIV
-Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Psalm 100: 2-5
-Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Psalm 100:2-5 NIV
Serve: worship, to cultivate, to do the work, to serven as one in bondage.
-You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh ; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
Galatians 5:13 NIV
Serve: to serve, be enslaved, to willingly give up ownership of oneself to another.
-Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NIV
Service is the tangible expression of Christianity. – Adam Jones