What is Service

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What is Service?!
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Service is Love

• Love that fills the heart
• Love overflows
• Result is service
• What is service without love?

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Service is Love

• Ideal service
• loving those we serve, as God loves us
• sacrificial love
• Jn 131 having loved His own who were in the
  world, He loved them to the end.
• Jn 316 For God so loved the world that He
  gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes
  in Him should not perish but have everlasting
  life.

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Service is Love

• How to be an effective teacher?
• Love!
• The spiritual servant is
• a beloved person
• an emotional person
• Matt 1812 - What do you think? If a man has a
  hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does
  he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the
  mountains to seek the one that is straying?

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Service is Love

• Love in preparing lessons
• Material that is loved by the students
• Interesting stories, facts
• Beneficial
• Mark 634 And Jesus, when He came out, saw a
  great multitude and was moved with compassion for
  them, because they were like sheep not having a
  shepherd. So He began to teach them many things.

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What is Service?

• Love
• Giving

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Service is Giving

• Giving out of love
• Without compelling
• Sun gives light and warmth to all

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Service is Giving

• Servant gives love, knowledge, visitation,
  comfort, aid,
• to everyone
• on every occasion
• all the time
• Acts 1038
• He went about doing good and healing all who
  were oppressed by the devil

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Service is Giving

• Everyone he meets or God put in his way he
  tried to lead to salvation
• Paul and Agrippa
• Acts 2628-29 Then Agrippa said to Paul, You
  almost persuade me to become a Christian.And
  Paul said, I would to God that not only you, but
  also all who hear me today, might become both
  almost and altogether such as I am, except for
  these chains.

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What is Service?

• Love
• Giving
• Spiritual Food

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Service is Spiritual Food

• Spiritual food to feed those served
• Lk 1242
• Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom
  his master will make ruler over his household, to
  give them their portion of food in due season?
• Full-course meal
• In one hour a week?!
• St. Antony the Great
• St. Peters sermon

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What is Service?

• Love
• Giving
• Spiritual Food
• Holy Zeal

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Service is Holy Zeal

• A flame Psalm 699
• zeal for Your house has eaten me up
• Cloven tongues of fire
• Zeal for the salvation of everyone
• 2 Cor 1129 - Who is weak, and I am not weak?
  Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with
  indignation?
• 1 Cor 922 to the weak I became as weak, that
  I might win the weak. I have become all things to
  all men, that I might by all means save some

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Service is Holy Zeal

• The Good shephard
• Jn 10 11 - I am the good shepherd. The good
  shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
• Ezk 3415,16 - I will feed My flock, and I will
  make them lie down, I will seek what was lost and
  bring back what was driven away, bind up the
  broken and strengthen what was sick but I will
  destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in
  judgment.

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What is Service?

• Love
• Giving
• Spiritual Food
• Holy Zeal