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Servants of Christ

Sunday 24 July, 2005 · Posted by Philip Bassett

20 Years ago I had a magazine article titled, �Not Servants, but Slaves� published in �On Being� a popular Christian magazine at the time. The substance of the article is the sermon I am preaching this morning but include with the article was the following checklist for Christian servants. Perhaps you might like to ask yourself these questions?

• Have I made a decisive commitment to Christ as Lord, accepting my status as one who is now subject to His will, not my own?
• Am I consciously calling Jesus �Lord� but deliberately disobeying him at some point?
• Am I putting Christ first in everything, or only those things where His will doesn�t conflict with my own?
• Is my service for Jesus conducted on His terms, or am I trying to impose my own conditions on following him.
• Am I holding back on humble �foot-washing� service to others perhaps through pride, or ambition, or fear?
• What opportunities for willing service to Jesus are available to me right now — today, this week, this year? Am I using them to the full, or am I letting them just pass by?
• Am I faithful in the small things, or just the big "up- front "things?

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