The Art of Sacrifice
"And whoever would be first among you must be your slave,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.” Matthew 20: 27-28TweetAs I matured in Christ, I began to notice, "everybody wants to preach, but nobody wants to minister! To minister is to care about the state of others and engage. To sacrifice is to act unselfishly, abandoning urges to serve self. People are hurting, in need of more than lip service. Christians are preordained to serve, lead lost souls to Christ by example and sacrifice. According to the Dictionary.com website, as a noun, examples of sacrifice may consist of; the offering of animal, plant, or human life or the material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage. In verb form, used with the per...