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Sunday, February 18, 2007
主日崇拜 - February 18, 2007 [附錄二]

選擇服待和選擇成為僕人的分別
Excerpt from Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline

A natural and understandable hesitancy accompanies any serious discussion of service. … We experience a fear that comes out of something like this: 'If I do that, people will take advantage of me; they will walk all over me.'

Right here we must see the difference between choosing to serve and choosing to be a servant. When we choose to serve, we are still in charge. We decide whom we will serve and when we will serve. And if we are in charge, we will worry a great deal about anyone stepping on us, that is, taking charge over us.

But when we choose to be a servant, we give up the right to be in charge. There is great freedom in this. If we voluntarily choose to be taken advantage of, then we cannot be manipulated. When we choose to be a servant, we surrender the right to decide who and when we will serve. We become available and vulnerable.

Consider the perspective of a slave. A slave sees all life from the viewpoint of slavery. He does not see himself as possessing the same rights as free men and women. Please understand me, when this slavery is involuntary it is cruel and dehumanizing. When the slavery is freely chosen, however, everything is changed. Voluntary servitude is a great joy.

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