Servants who Serve...

I wonder...

We sing songs about working for the kingdom, we talk about being "servants", yet so many Christians (I am including myself) sit on their butts when it comes to service! We sit in our churches and we talk about the "work of the church" and we fight and bicker over the budgets for work, but we never realize that we are sitting in a building arguing about work...irony?

When I use to schedule days of service for the youth, you would have thought that I was trying to pull their teeth out. Wait, that's a bad illustration because I think for some of them they would rather have their teeth pulled out than serve others. Why is that?

1. It's too hot! Yet Jesus ministered, healed, and loved people in the desert. It's not too hot, we have become too lazy.
2. I'm too busy! Love each other as you love yourself...so, if we are too busy to stop and help people, just call yourself the priest in the parable of the good Samaritan
3. If you don't have fun then people will leave! While I agree partially with this, if we convert people or keep them with "fun", then when will we show them that service for God is more important than going swimming for God or playing Lazertag for God?? On the other hand, we need to show people we can have fun!
4. It's the weekend! I work/school during the week and I need a break! Again, I agree. We all need some time off. But what if we are sitting at home for a break and meanwhile there is a widow or disabled person who really, really needs someone to help them? Is it more important for us to be lazy than to help others who, maybe without our help wouldn't make it?

Don't think I am down-playing leisure or rest, because I love those the most of anyone! But, what about what James tell us in his book?...

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress...

Well, I know this is repetitive. I know that for ages we have been talking about serving others, but when are we finally going to shut the talk and start being servants who actually serve?