New Song Normals - Second Mile, Second Nature

Serving isn’t an action, it’s a posture

God Over Others, Others Over Self

Galatians 1:10 

“For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.” 

Others Over Self

Philippians 2:3  

“Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.”

Philippians 2:3 AMP “3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit [through factional motives, or strife], but with [an attitude of] humility [being neither arrogant nor self-righteous], regard others as more important than yourselves.

1. Serving Shows Jesus

Matthew 5:16

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” 

2. Serving Changes You

3. Serving Makes You Great

Matthew 20:25 

“25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. 26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Greatness isn’t determined by the amount of people that serve you but by the amount of people that you serve. 

2nd Mile, 2nd Nature

Matthew 5:41-42 “41 Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. 42 Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.”

What’s something I can take off of someone else’s to do list?

How can I make my leaders job easier?

What can you do?

1 John 3:18

“My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”

1 John 3:18 AMP 

“Little children (believers, dear ones), let us not love [merely in theory] with word or with tongue [giving lip service to compassion], but in action and in truth [in practice and in sincerity, because practical acts of love are more than words].