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CALLED TO SERVE

• Sung Kwon, PhD, MPA
• North American Division
• Adventist Community Services
• www.communityservices.org

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Matthew 2028

• 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.

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Philippians 25-8

• Your attitude should be the same as that of
  Christ Jesus made himself nothing, taking the
  very nature of a servant, being made in human
  likeness. And being found in appearance as a man,
  he humbled himself and became obedient to
  deatheven death on a cross!

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John 155 (NIV)

• I am the vine you are the branches. If a man
  remains in me and I in him, he will bear much
  fruit apart from me you can do nothing.

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Relief

• It involves directly supplying food, clothing or
  housing to someone in urgent need
• It is like giving someone a fish

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Individual Development

• Transformational ministries empower a person to
  improve physical, emotional, intellectual,
  relational or social status
• It is like teaching how to fish

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Community Development

• Renews the building blocks of a healthy community
  through housing, jobs, health care and education
• It is like providing fishing tools

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Structural Change

• Transforming unfair political, economic,
  environmental or cultural institutions and
  systems
• It is to make sure that everyone in the community
  has equal opportunity to access the fishing pond

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Ellen G. White (Education, p. 15)

• When Adam came from the Creators hand, he bore
  in his physical, mental, and spiritual nature, a
  likeness to his Maker. God created man in His
  own image, and it was His purpose that the
  longer man lived, the more fully he should reveal
  this imagethe more fully reflect the glory of
  the Creator. All his faculties were capable of
  development their capacity and vigor were
  continually to increase.

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Matthew 935

• Jesus went through all the towns and villages,
  teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good
  news of the kingdom and healing every disease and
  sickness.

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Ephesians 210

• For we are Gods workmanship, created in Christ
  Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in
  advance for us to do.

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Four Views of Discipleship

• Learners
• Committed believers
• Ministers
• Converters

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John 1226

• Whoever serves me must follow me and where I
  am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor
  the one who serves me.

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1 Peter 221

• To this you were called, because Christ suffered
  for you, leaving you an example, that you should
  follow in his steps.

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Matthew 2026-28

• 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 slavejust
  as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but
  to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for
  many.

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Matthew 1624-26

• If anyone would come after me, he must deny
  himself and take up his cross and follow me. For
  whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but
  whoever loses his life for me will find it. What
  good will it be for a man if he gains the whole
  world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man
  give in exchange for his soul?

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Matthew 419, Mark 117

• Come, follow me. I will make you fishers of men.

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Colossians 43-4

• And pray for us, too, that God may open a door
  for our message, so that we may proclaim the
  mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray
  that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.

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1 John 11-2

• That which was from the beginning, which we have
  heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we
  have looked at and our hands have touchedthis we
  proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life
  appeared we have seen it and testify to it, and
  we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was
  with the Father and has appeared to us.

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Matthew 1128

• Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
  and I will give you rest.

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Matthew 1129

• Learn from me. Jesus proclaims, I am meek and
  lowly in heart and you will find rest unto your
  souls.

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Believe in Me

• John 141Do not let your hearts be troubled.
  Trust in God trust also in me.
• John 1411Believe me when I say that I am in
  the Father and the Father is in me or at least
  believe on the evidence of the miracles
  themselves.

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Matthew 419

• Come, follow me, Jesus said, and I will make
  you fishers of men.

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1 John 316-19

• By this we know love, because he laid down his
  life for us. And we also ought to lay down our
  lives for the brethren. But whoever has this
  worlds goods, and sees his brother in need, and
  shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of
  God abide in him? My little children, let us not
  love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in
  truth. And by this we know that we are of the
  truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

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John 154

• Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot
  bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the
  vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me.

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Ephesians 412

• for the equipping of the saints for the work
  of service, to the building up of the body of
  Christ

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Adventist Community Services
www.communityservices.org