Servanthood

My good brother Samuel at A Lion Has Roared! has written a great post that made me examine myself and my Christian life. I definitely am not doing justice to his piece with this short introduction, so all I pray is that you, men and women, go read it today.

Men, my brothers, it is indeed my prayer that some of you will hear these words anew, that they might be fresh like that first crisp taste of fall after a long, dry summer. For others, it is also my prayer that these words would be safely familiar — like the sight of smoke from the home place chimney after a long journey away from home — it may be well known, but never before appreciated so greatly. For the rest, these words might sting and make you uncomfortable. In that case, comfortable is the last thing I would want you to be. I pray that you all will be enabled to grasp the severity of the words at hand, and that by them you will not be cowed, but rather convinced. As you read this, as soon as your mind starts to think to itself, “ah! That sure describes those people…” Stop. I am not writing to get “amens”. I am not writing to make a sensation. I am writing to bring about conviction. I might be writing about you, whoever, and wherever you may be. So keep that at the back of your mind as you read on. As soon as you think I have described the “others”, I have already described you.

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In the English Standard Version (ESV) translation of the Bible, there is always a notation beside the word “servant” that tells the reader that the word in Greek actually translates into “bondservant”. That got me thinking as to what difference it makes if the Greek word doulos (δοῦλος) is rendered as “servant” or “bondservant”.

Apparently there is a difference, it seems, when I checked the word in Strong’s Concordance.

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Just this Sunday I found out that Nick Vijucic spoke at City Harvest Church the previous weekend, and decided to check if there was a video of the service.

Now, I don’t bother with checking out City Harvest Church normally, since I don’t buy into their mega-church prosperity gospel, or their rock concert-grade performances, or seeing pastors with dyed hair, but I just had to give a listen to what Nick Vijucic had to say.

In case you know not who Nick is, he is an Australian who was born without limbs — no arms nor legs — save for a foot that he calls his “chicken drumstick”. Instead of giving up on life, he surmounted all of life’s difficulties with faith in Yahweh and is today sharing the Good News and being an immense inspiration to millions around the world.

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