Organization reveals purpose. We are a society of people who are servants and slaves of one another.

1. Servants
& Slaves

2. “But you are a chosen race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for
his own possession, that you may
proclaim the excellencies of him who
called you out of darkness into his
marvelous light. Once you were not a
people, but now you are God's people;
once you had not received mercy, but
now you have received mercy.”
1 Peter 2.9-10,
CB NT p. 409

3. What does God teach us
about how we are to be
organized?

11. “rulers of the
Gentiles lord it
over them, and
their great ones
exercise authority
over them”
Mark 10.42,
CB NT p. 82

13. “I have written something to the
church, but Diotrephes, who likes to
put himself first, does not acknowledge
our authority.”
3 John 9,
CB NT p. 428

14. “But it shall not be so among you.”
Mark 10.43
CB NT p. 82

15. AMONG YOU...
No “Rulers”
No “Great Ones”

16. “But whoever would be great among
you must be your servant, and whoever
would be first among you must be slave
of all.”
Mark 10.43-45
CB NT p. 82

17. Do you want to be GREAT?
Servant

18. Do you want to be FIRST?
Slave

19. We are to be
SERVANTS
and SLAVES.

20. Jesus

21. “And He put all things under His feet
and gave Him as head over all things to
the church, which is His body, the
fulness of Him who fills all in all.”
Ephesians 1.22-23,
CB NT p. 337

22. “even as Christ is the head of the
church, His body, and is Himself it’s
Savior.”
Ephesians 5.23,
CB NT p. 342

23. Jesus
Saints

24. “But as it is, God arranged the
members in the body, each one of
them, as He chose. If all were a single
member, where would the body be? As
it is, there are many members, yet one
body.”
1 Corinthians 12.18-20,
CB NT p. 304

25. “But you are not to be called rabbi, for
you have one teacher, and you are all
brothers.”
Matthew 23.8,
CB NT p. 45

26. “But whoever would be great among
you must be your servant, and whoever
would be first among you must be slave
of all.”
Mark 10.43-45
CB NT p. 82

27. “Now I urge you, brothers— you know
that the household of Stephanas were
the first converts in Achaia, and that
they have devoted themselves to the
service of the saints— be subject to
such as these, and to every fellow
workers and laborer.”
1 Corinthians 16.15-16,
CB NT p. 311

28. “Outdo one another in showing honor.”
Romans 12.10,
CB NT p.

29. “For you were
called to freedom,
brothers. Only do
not use your
freedom as an
opportunity for
the flesh, but
through love
serve one
another.”
Galatians 5.13,
CB NT p. 333

30. “As each one has received a gift, use it to
serve one another, as good stewards of
God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as
one who speaks oracles of God; whoever
serves, as one who serves by the strength
taht God supplies—in order that in
everything God may be glorified through
Jesus Christ. To Him belong glory and
dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
1 Peter 4.10-11
CB NT p. 333

32. Jesus

35. “Do nothing from rivalry or conceit,
but in humility count others more
significant than yourselves.”
Philippians 2.3,
CB NT p. 345

36. “Let each of you look not only to his
own interests, but also to the interests
of others.”
Philippians 2.4,
CB NT p. 346

37. “Have this mind among yourselves, which
is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though He
was in the form of God, did not count
equality with God a thing to be grasped,
but made himself nothing, taking the form
of a servant, being born in the likeness of
men. And being found in human form, he
humbled himself by becoming obedient to
the point of death, even death on a cross.”
Philippians 2.5-8,
CB NT p. 346

38. Will today be the
day you decide to
go to heaven?

39. Lesson slideshows (with notes)
and audio can be found at:
www.churchofchristmiranda.com

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41. Compiled and Presented by:
Fellowship with Man Dave Stewart
Church 12 December, 2010
Las Cruces, NM
#12 www.churchofchristmiranda.com
Servants and Slaves
Synopsis: Organization reveals purpose. We are a society of people who
are servants and slaves of one another.
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