Contrast Self-Righteous Service with True Service
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I see on the chapel speaker calendar that Richard Foster is scheduled. He is one of my favorite writers and in his volume entitled Celebration of Discipline, he has a chapter entitled "The Discipline of Service." Let me share his thoughts as he contrasts self-righteous service with true service.
Self-righteous service comes through human effort. Self-righteous service is impressed with the "big deal." Self-righteous service requires external rewards. Self-righteous service is highly concerned about results. Self-righteous service picks and chooses whom to serve. Self-righteous service is affected by moods and whims. Self-righteous service is temporary. Self-righteous service is without sensitivity. It insists on meeting the need even when to do so would be destructive. Self-righteous service fractures community.True service comes from a relationship with the divine Other deep inside.
True service finds it almost impossible to distinguish the small from the large service.
True service rests contented in hiddenness.
True service is free of the need to calculate results.
True service is indiscriminate in its ministry.
True service ministers simply and faithfully because there is a need.
True service is a life-style.
True service can withhold the service as freely as perform it.
