Leadership (servanthood)

Wow, Cole's message Amp'ed - Shocking Service this week was spot on. I thought I would take a few minutes and talk about what it means to be leader.

Why are you serving? Why are you waking up 2 hours early and coming in to helping get the church setup? Why are showing up 45 minutes before service to greet the early guests? WHY?

I will tell you why, because you are a leader, you see a need and you take care of it. You approach everything from a whatever it takes attitude. And that is AWESOME!!!

Here is the rub, getting tired of it, you don't see any fruit from it. You are blind to the good that is happening. WHY? Tired, burnt out, and the price seems to high?

Because at some point you crossed from being energized about the opportunity to serve and fell into the rut of an obligation. That is a dangerous place to be, because your attitude suffers and those that are watching you see a transformation happening and they begin to question whats going on as well. Life is about opportunities to influence and our attitude directs whether it is a positive or a negative impact .

What we have to do is find a way to bring it all back into perspective, ask youself why did I start serving? Was it for me? Was it for others? was it for GOD?

A little perspective is all it takes sometime. Usually the fall begins with frustration. How do you handle frustration? Well I guess it depends on your Attitude about the thing you are doing?

Example, I love to golf but I am not very good. I sometimes I get very frustrated with how I am playing, but you never here me say, That I am going to quit. WHY? because I LOVE to Golf. It's that easy.

So approach your opportunities to serve from the view point of I love GOD, and because I Love him, it doesn't matter how hard I have to work at something or long it takes. I will do it, because I love him.

When the opportunity to serve is presented remember, the best way to return Gods love is to serve him, remember that God said whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.

I interpret that to mean, Serve you family, neighbor, guest and enemy with compassion, caring, understanding and love. Meet their needs as if they were Gods. Serve them where they are at in their life and LET GOD DO THE REST.

God Bless