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A Humble Heart Series
Contributed by Rick Stacy on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: What do we know about Onesiphorus? You’ve probably never heard of him before. He isn’t famous. His life is barely a mention on the page of a letter from Paul to Timothy. Here was a man who was simply a humble servant.
While Don, Tom, and Jamie have been working hard to put together this new building I’ve been working on a ministry plan for the future of MCC.
We have created an image of what it is that drives us and that makes us go on in ministry and service. It’s why we are welcoming, worshiping, growing, serving and reaching. It is the driving focus of our existence. It is very simply that people all around us are lost – and they need to be found.
That is the core reason for everything we do. We want them to find Jesus and to find the way home. We want to see them come into his church and become part of the body. We want them to be baptized – washing away their sins and walking in the newness of life. We want to see them worship with us, growing, serving, and reaching out to others. That is what it is all about.
Lost people being found. I want to search for them until they are found.
What it means to be a Humble Servant
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can.”
John Wesley
John Wesley provides the most convicting analysis on what it means to be a true servant: “
Rick Warren. The Purpose Driven Life, Zondervan Publishing, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2002, pg. 231
