Tonight I am thinking about how followers of Jesus must serve others without any agenda. We have all seen how churches volunteer to serve in their community with the hidden (incredibly obvious) motive of getting people to come to their church. But I think the church’s service must be hidden more than it is open. The church’s service must be completely selfless, where we simply show up to serve so that we can meet a need and for no other reason. Credit doesn’t matter, accolades are pointless; service by its very nature must exist to benefit others and not ourselves.

Let’s serve the community for the benefit of the community.

Let’s serve the people for the benefit of the people.

Period.