Getting Into the Game with My Attitude

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Getting into the Game with My Attitude

Pastor Brandon Berg

BIG IDEA: When I serve with Christ’s attitude, Christ is exalted, and lives are transformed

Philippians 2:1-11, CEB

"Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort in love, any sharing in the Spirit, any sympathy, complete my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, being united, and agreeing with each other. Don’t do anything for selfish purposes, but with humility think of others as better than yourselves. Instead of each person watching out for their own good, watch out for what is better for others. Adopt the attitude that was in Christ Jesus: Though he was in the form of God, he did not consider being equal with God something to exploit. But he emptied himself by taking the form of a slave and by becoming like human beings. When he found himself in the form of a human, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore, God highly honored him and gave him a name above all names, so that at the name of Jesus everyone in heaven, on earth, and under the earth might bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
 

NEXT STEPS...(depending on where you find yourself)

1. You’ve never served and need a first step: Discover U
2. You’ve served a few places but have struggled to find a ‘fit’: Discover U
3. You’re serving and feeling a bit used up and bitter: Consider inventorying your motivations. What is it your motivated by? Recognition? An agenda? The approval of others? A chance to really strut your stuff? Or… is your motivation simply a response to the matchless compassion, and grace, and love, and rescue of Jesus Christ in your life, so much so that you willingly get in the game knowing that there is nothing you could do to ever repay your debt, and so with a heart full of gratitude you choose to serve.