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A Gift from Our Family to Yours
Septmember 13, 2026 - For the Church at the St. John Church of Christ
Spiritual Discipline: Service
Many Americans spend their lives working themselves into a place where they can be served more than serve. As the saying goes: “It’s good to be queen [or king]!” Our culture sees the blessed ones as those who get waited on and served. And few among us aspire to be the maid with the job of serving and blessing others. In Genesis 18:18 the Lord says, “Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.” God’s trajectory is to bless the earth through His people, and to show them what he means – God sends Jesus to come to earth to be God with us. The Christian discipline of service is the way the world discovers the love of God. We are the way God blesses the earth.
The discipline of service is the desire to reflect the helping, caring, and sharing love of God in the world. Service is a way of offering resources, time, treasure, influence, and expertise for the care, protection, justice, and nurture of others. Acts of service give hands to the second greatest commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Jesus’ attention to the blessing God intended to bring to the nations never wavered. When he finds the temple in Jerusalem clogged with bying and selling, he takes the whole religious establishment to task – running them out of the temple with a whip of cords. God’s people were to be a blessing; His temple was not supposed to be a place of business but “a house of prayer for all nations” (Mark 11:17). God intends to bless the nations through us and our lives of service. Christians are the very presence of God to others. We become God’s vehicle of blessing on planet earth.
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We meet together regularly on Sunday mornings. We would love to have you join us!
We have bible classes for all ages at 10:00 a.m. Following classes, we meet together as a church family at 11:00 a.m. for worship services.
On the first Sunday of the month we enjoy a potluck meal together following worship service.
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