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GAME OF LIMBO
What are examples of the ways you sometimes “bend over backward” to help other people?
If someone asks you to help with a task or stay extra to clean up or offer a few minutes of assistance on a project, how do you typically respond—and why?
As we’ll discover in today’s lesson, God wants us to serve other people.
Why do you think God values service?
After the discussion, SAY SOMETHING LIKE: Sometimes we must bend over backward to serve God and others—developing a life of service can be a sacrifice for us, but it’s one we’re called to develop as followers of Christ.
Jesus lived a life of service to others—he was like no other man.
He did miracles, he was a profound teacher, and most importantly, his resurrection proved he was the Son of God.
The Gospels reveal that Jesus lived the life of the ultimate servant.
Jesus served God and others and even served us by dying on the cross.
INKED: MARKED FOR LIFE
Week 2: A Life Permanently Marked by Service
Some people seem to serve naturally.
They are the first to volunteer to clean up trash or help out when they see work that needs done.
But the Bible’s call to service doesn’t just apply to those who have a pre-disposition; we are all called to serve.
We don’t serve for the approval of people or to win friends.
As Christians we serve because Jesus served us and instructed us to follow his example.
When and where do you find it most difficult to be a servant?
Why are those settings particularly difficult for you?
Describe a time when you have served someone else.
How did it make you feel?
How did the person or people you were serving feel?
How do you think it made God feel when you chose to serve?
1. Service is the key to true greatness
This teaching contradicts everything we see in our culture—just like it contradicted everything in the disciples’ culture.
Human wisdom tells us that great people are served by others, but Jesus tells us that the greatest people are servants to others.
It can be difficult to grasp this concept and even more difficult to live it out, but Jesus made it clear—those who want to be great in God’s eyes will serve others.
That’s what it means to have a life inked by service.
· Imagine being of the other 10 disciples in this story.
What might have gone through your mind if you heard what James and John had requested—and why?
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· Imagine being of the other 10 disciples in this story.
What might have gone through your mind if you heard what James and John had requested—and why?
· What view of greatness do James and John seem to have in ?
How is their view different from Jesus’ perspective?
· Jesus said anyone who wants to become Great must be a servant.
What are some of the ways this statement challenges our ordinary, human, natural thinking on leadership and service?
· How might a Christian desire to be great without it becoming a pride issue?
What kind of greatness might you or I pursue without it becoming sinful?
2. Service helps us become more like Jesus
ASK:
This passage presents one of the most profound examples of serving in the life of Jesus.
He is literally doing what only a slave would do.
It made the disciples uncomfortable that their Lord would take on such a demeaning task.
But his activity had a purpose: Jesus wanted his disciples to remember the importance of serving others, and the foot washing was a powerful sermon illustration.
Jesus chose to wash his disciples’ feet—a task usually left to a slave or servant.
Why do you think Jesus selected that particular activity to demonstrate his servant attitude?
Jesus’ actions clearly made his disciples uncomfortable, especially Peter.
Why are we sometimes uncomfortable when other people serve us?
What can service reveal about our attitudes?
What are some of the ways developing a lifestyle of service—where people see it inked on your life—can help you become more like Jesus?
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Your service becomes an example to others
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Jesus says, “I have given you an example to follow.
Do as I have done to you.”
It’s clear that Jesus didn’t just give lip service to serving.
He practiced what he preached.
It is important that if we are going to call ourselves followers of Christ, then we should live by his example.
Jesus taught his disciples to serve—and then he modeled it to the point of dying on the cross to pay the price for the sins of humanity.
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What motivates you to serve?
Are you more likely to serve when someone asks you to, or when you first see that person serving?
Why?
When it comes to service, who do you think Jesus wants us to set an example for?
Why is it important to have the right attitude when serving?
Is it possible to do the act of serving without having the heart of a servant?
How can we demonstrate to others that we are servants?
Too often, Christians get labeled “hypocrites” because Christ-like choices or actions aren’t evident in our lives.
Service should not only be a value we talk about—it should be something we do and something that can be seen at all times, in all settings.
It should be “inked” on our lives.
ng a lifestyle of service—where people see it inked on your life—can help you become more like Jesus?
Describe a time when you have served someone else.
How did it make you feel?
How did the person or people you were serving feel?
How do you think it made God feel when you chose to serve?
What is the difference between serving and being a doormat—allowing people to take advantage of you? ‘
How do you balance between serving others and letting them take advantage of you?
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