Week 6: The Upside Down Kingdom
‘The Upside Down Kingdom’ is a term used to describe the difference between the way the world sees success and God’s view of success. While it’s so easy to chase a life and actions that serve ourselves in pursuit of a dream or goals, the bible points to a totally different definition of what it means to be great.
Read Mark 9:35 (ESV)
35 “And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
Read Philippians 2:3-8 (ESV)
“3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
Reflection:
How could you serve others more selflessly?
Why does God value servanthood over status?
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