GET IN THE GAME: WHY WE PLAY

Get in the Game

Why We Play

Philippians 2:1-8

The Fuel For serving others

1.Because God

Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion

Philippians 2:1

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:9-12

2. Because Jesus

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45

The Serving Model of Jesus

Serve

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus

Philippians 2:3-5

Serve

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. Philippians 2:6-7

Serve

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Philippians 2:8

3. Because Serving Us

then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Philippians 2:2

4. Because Serving Is Really Serving

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ Matthew 25:37-40