Quotes about Servanthood

You may think you're merely raising children, but during this process, God is also raising you to become a stronger and more capable servant of his kingdom.

You are imitating Jesus Christ and taking on the nature of a servant, which is your calling as a Christian.

The church must not teach the submission of wives apart from the sacrificial love and servanthood required of husbands.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream, and struggle. . . Servanthood is a fine place to begin, but gradually we move toward mutual love, genuine relationships.

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.

Thats what I love about serving God. In His eyes, there are no little people...because there are no big people. We are all on the same playing field

The Christian life is not about leadership but "followership," not about becoming more and more but less and less.

God did not become a servant so that we could order him around but so that we could join him in a redemptive life.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source. So, before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence.

Many Christians would prefer to hear "What a great guy" from the crowd rather than "Well done, good and faithful servant" from the Master [Matthew 25:23].

In the Kingdom of God there are no great men, only humble men God has used greatly.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no better when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.