Service

The Discipline of Service

Pastor Richard Hovey

“Love to be concealed, and little esteemed: be content to lack praise, never be troubled when you are slighted or undervalued.”

Jeremy Taylor

Practicing the Discipline of Service

  • Be mindful of those around you: are there needs in your family or neighborhood you could be meeting through simple acts of service?

  • Is there a service project you could give yourself to once or twice a year, like picking up litter/garbage in your community?

  • To put this in perspective in your own life, take a sheet of paper and make two columns on it; one column is to list the activities that you were involved in for yourself and the other column is to list the activities you were involved in for the sake of others. Take an inventory of your activity this week: what was self serving and what was for the sake of others?