The word translated servant is...
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The word translated servant is "diakonos" from which we have deacon.
The discussion the 12 had has continued to our time. Who is the greatest: actor; president; baseball, football or basketball player; preacher. The list seems endless. Who was it who said that a person wrapped up in himself or herself makes a very small package? Why do we get caught up in worrying about using other people's ideas in sermons? Why do Christian preachers write? I would hope not to build up their own reputation. Let it be done, let it be used for the glory of God! So I freely contribute as I freely use. Listen to this man's testimony: "I have a second-class mind. It is the simple truth that I never had an original idea in my life. In all the books I have written I have explained and expounded other men's ideas." The William Barclay, whose commentaries have proven so helpful to so many said that.
Epictetus wrote, "Arrogance is removed by confutation, and Socrates was the first who practiced this." Socrates would ask questions until his pupil would finally exclaim his lack of knowledge. Did this humble or humiliate?
Jesus chose another way. Jesus was giving up everything in going to die on the cross, and his disciples were trying to put themselves each above the others. Once I showed a young girl my Greek New Testament, and she said it looks upside down. Sometimes the Bible seems upside down. In Acts 17:6 we read the charge against the early church.
On September 26, 1776, Nathan Hale was executed after saying, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my Country."
-- Richardson
The discussion the 12 had has continued to our time. Who is the greatest: actor; president; baseball, football or basketball player; preacher. The list seems endless. Who was it who said that a person wrapped up in himself or herself makes a very small package? Why do we get caught up in worrying about using other people's ideas in sermons? Why do Christian preachers write? I would hope not to build up their own reputation. Let it be done, let it be used for the glory of God! So I freely contribute as I freely use. Listen to this man's testimony: "I have a second-class mind. It is the simple truth that I never had an original idea in my life. In all the books I have written I have explained and expounded other men's ideas." The William Barclay, whose commentaries have proven so helpful to so many said that.
Epictetus wrote, "Arrogance is removed by confutation, and Socrates was the first who practiced this." Socrates would ask questions until his pupil would finally exclaim his lack of knowledge. Did this humble or humiliate?
Jesus chose another way. Jesus was giving up everything in going to die on the cross, and his disciples were trying to put themselves each above the others. Once I showed a young girl my Greek New Testament, and she said it looks upside down. Sometimes the Bible seems upside down. In Acts 17:6 we read the charge against the early church.
On September 26, 1776, Nathan Hale was executed after saying, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my Country."
-- Richardson
