The Worst Christian Sin (Part 2)

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.  Philippians 2:5-7


To never commit the worst Christian sin, we must assume the mind of Christ.  We must think and act like servants of God, and servants of each other.  True ministers. We must think like servants of God; we must think like servants of people.  But before we can think like servants, we must know once and for all what a true servant is.


TRUE SERVANTS ARE LIKE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
How do true servants think?  What is the essential quality of the truest servants?  There is no one who ever served with the perfection of humility displayed gloriously by our Lord Jesus Christ.  He shows us the way to true servant hood in these words from the Apostle Paul:


He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant...


The essential quality of Christ, the perfect picture of a servant, is that He it totally focused on the one He is serving, and not on himself at all. 


Yet there are Christians who come with a very strong agenda when they serve God or people.  They want God or people to do something very badly, and they won't let up until you do it.  They pray with a manipulativeness that is not focused on God's happiness. They want you to do something, pray something, sing some song, read some bible verses repeatedly.  They aren't asking you if they can pray for you or not, accepting a yes or no from you.  No, they insist they pray for you. They insist you read certain verses or pray certain prayers that they give you. 


How is this serving, when the server is trying to make you take their service?  If a waiter insisted you eat a certain food on the menu, and wouldn't let up until you ate what she wanted you to eat, wouldn't you get another waiter?  Is this really what servant does?


Yet we see people try to bully God into answering their prayers. They think their faith is so impressive, and that their knowledge of scriptures so vast, that they can force God to give them their requests. They think they can force God to obey them. 


And we see people so self centered that they refuse to simply ask suffering believers how, OR IF, they can help them.  Yes, they ASSUME they can help them, and the try to force their help on brothers and sisters who are already weary and worn out. 


For example, we see healthy Christians telling sick Christians to raise their hands, pray certain prayers, and have enough faith, or they won't get healed. These healthy believers aren't compassionate servants of their sick brothers and sisters.  Instead they inspire the sick with more fear if the sick don't do what the "healer"says.  Antichrist!  The servant nature of Christ should be the nature of every Christian.  How did we come to this place of self centeredness? (click here for part 3)