Improving Your Serve
This weekend I started reading a new book by Charles Swindoll entitled, Improving Your Serve. No this isn’t an instructional read on most difficult part of ping pong, it’s a book about Christian Service. I tend to pick books to read in areas that I feel I need a boost in at the moment, and over the last couple years I have felt a real need to improve my service life. In high school I had to do it for Beta Club, in college we were required to complete 15 hours of service a semester to graduate, but now that I am not being forced to serve by anyone the pressure is off.
One of the things that I was struck by early in the first chapter was Swindoll’s series of questions about the neighborhood. he posed questions like. Do you know your neighbors names? Have you ever seen them needing help and helped them? Would you ask your neighbor for help if you needed it? Questions of this nature just blow me away because in our society the overwhelming answer for most people is NO! We don’t have to run down to the local soup kitchen or mission to serve, we can do it right in our own neighborhood. Sounds cheesy, but it’s true.
I think if everyone, including ministers, made being a servant more of a priority then Christianity would grow tremendously. I bet if there were a survey taken of non-Christians who have a bad view of the church most of their reasons would center around self-centered, egotistical, non-servant attitudes of someone they associate with church. The more we can do to dispel that image the better. Just my opinion.