Self-Serve!

Matthew 20: 28      ESV

²⁸ ...”even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

When I was a kid, my folks bought their gasoline at the same gas station for years.

Dick was the manager of the Consolidated Gas Station we patronized, and he was almost like a member of the family.

He knew my folks by their first name, and in those days, he checked the oil and washed the windshield.

I remember when that gas station became a self serve store.

Dick didn’t come out to greet my folks any more, and we had to check our own oil and wash our own windshield.

The self service gas station evolved into something I didn’t think was so pleasant at the time.

It would appear that during that era, we developed a dependency on self.

I go to some places now, and I have to bag my own groceries?!?

I wonder if the church has become self serve?

Are we more self reliant than we’d like to admit?

Bigger churches have been built, so people can come and go as they please, without any expectation or accountability.

Call me old fashioned...but I’m sorry, I’m just not a fan.

I wonder if there are more servants in the church today, or less?

Am I willing to do things God’s way, or my way?

Maybe this life is a whole lot less about me than I thought...