This is a great quote by Rick Warren. I was in the message & message notes by Whit’s mother’s pastor, Jim Leggett this Sunday.
God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you…. Thousands of books have been written on leadership, but few on servanthood. Everyone wants to lead; no one wants to be a servant. We would rather be generals than privates. Even Christians want to he “servant-leaders,” not just plain servants. But to be like Jesus is to be a servant…. In heaven God is going to openly reward some of His most obscure and unknown servants — people we have never heard of on earth, who taught emotionally disturbed children, cleaned up after incontinent elderly, nursed AIDS patients, and served in thousands of other unnoticed ways.
That’s ironic, I had to add the word “servanthood” to my computer’s spelling dictionary… I guess it hasn’t made its way into common usage.
By the way, every time we have joined Whitney’s mother at church in Katy, Jim Leggett has given excellent, thoughtful, bible-rich sermons. If you listen to pod-casts, his RSS-feed might be an encouraging addition to your list of subscriptions.
