Immanuel Lutheran Church & School

Christ has called us to serve.  We are called to serve others before ourselves.  This is a calling that is preached from our pulpits, and is taught in our schools, and is even shared in our society (not under the calling from Christ, though He is where it truly originated from).  But as we preach this and teach it…do we prepare our kids and ourselves to actually live it?

Actions truly do speak louder than words, and our actions seem to me to contradict  what our words say.  Play this out with me.  With children we teach them to help one another when they are in need, yet in the classroom we teach and act with the primary objective to help yourself, as long as you get good grade, what the person next to you gets is up to them.  There is no success of a class academically, it is success of a class individually.  Also, this carries into our work place, which leads to many struggles in the work place.  We strive to make sure our jobs are complete, and if a co-worker is struggling, we rarely help them as we truly live in a ‘dog eat dog’ world.  The problem with this is that companies close and fail constantly because the team did not succeed, even if certain individuals did.

Christ calls us to serve others, those in need.  This does not just mean the needy, the poor, the oppressed (they are included though), but also the fellow student, the co-worker, the one who quietly is slipping away. 

Serve others, a model for life, a model that we each need to individually live for the good of the body of Christ. 

God Bless you as you serve