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Serving, Not Seeking Status
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When we’re in our churches, we shouldn’t be seeking prestige or power. All we need to be seeking is greater transformation into the likeness of Christ. James and John through their mother sought prestige and power, and you can see what Jesus thought of that in Matthew 20 verses 20 to 28.
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. And he said to her, “What you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your kingdom.”
Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
And when the Ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers. But Jesus called them to him and said. “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you, but whoever would be great among you must be your servant and whoever would be first among you must be your slave. Even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
So from that passage, we can see that what we need to do in church is to be servants, not to be seeking glory for ourselves or even for our church organisation The only glory we should ever seek is God’s.
