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May 5 2009 at 1:27 pm

‘Totally Available for the Master’s Use’

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In his message this Sunday, Mark Mitchell shared a couple of quotes that really affected me. They’re from Slave of Christ: A New Testament Metaphor for Total Devotion to Christ by Murray J. Harris. Here they are for your benefit:

“As Christ’s purchased possession, the Christian is wholly devoted to the person of the Master (Romans 14:8). As Christ’s ‘movable property,’ the Christian is totally available for the Master’s use (2 Timothy 2:21). This complete devotion to Christ includes three elements:

1. Humble submission to the person of Christ…
2. Unquestioning obedience to the Master’s will…
3. An exclusive preoccupation with pleasing Christ…”

“First, to be a slave of Christ is not a right reserved for the favored few in the church but is the privilege of all believers, unrelated to their giftedness or their particular role in the church … Second, while for Christian leaders [slave] was already a title of honor, it gained its positive connotations in the ears of all Christians because the divine Master they were serving was kind and generous and himself had blazed an exemplary trail of lowly service. What all the [slaves] of this [Lord] gained through being associated with him was not so much authority and power as unparalleled honor and the assurance that their service, whatever its nature, was of supreme value, simply because it was done for him.”

 





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