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DNA - What Makes Us? - We get to serve. (Welcome Home)

We get to serve.
"We will lead the way in compassion. It is an honor to serve Jesus by being his hands, feet, and voice in a lost and dying world. This is a call we are excited to follow, not a begrudging task we are forced to take.”

Memory Verse:
Romans 12:10-11 TLB
10 Love each other with brotherly affection and take delight in honoring each other. 11 Never be lazy in your work, but serve the Lord enthusiastically.

"We will lead the way in compassion.”

The church grew because they lived out the Gospel.

"It is mainly the deeds of a love so noble that lead many to put a brand upon us. 'See,' they say, 'how they love one another,' for they themselves are animated by mutual hatred; 'and how they are ready to die for one another,' for they themselves will sooner put to death.”
- Tertullian Apologeticum

"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.”
-Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life

"It is an honor to serve Jesus by being his hands, feet, and voice in a lost and dying world.”

Jesus identifies Himself so completely with the needy that ministry to "the least of these" is ministry to Him.

Compassion is the litmus test of discipleship.

"Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours."
St. Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582)

"This is a call we are excited to follow, not a begrudging task we are forced to take.”

"Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion... Service to God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God. Service is an expression of my nature, and God's call is an expression of His nature."
-Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)

1. Ask the Holy Spirit to shape your heart.

2. Stop looking around while you serve, instead invest yourself in what you are doing.

3. Take joy in every opportunity to serve!