SERVANT LEADERSHIP - The Blue Letter Bible Institute

Servant Leadership – Lesson 1
Characteristics of a Servant by Chuck Smith
The minister is an instrument and God uses instruments. God uses people to do His work. We
have this glorious privilege. Paul said that we have this marvelous treasure here in earthen vessels
(2 Corinthians 4:7). Now he is pointing out something that is quite ludicrous. You have got the
most valuable thing in the universe—the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. And what has God put it
in? This dumb clay pot, cheap ol’ clay pot. Why? That the glory may be to God and not of us.
God commits His work of sharing and spreading the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ to these
instruments, in order that the glory might be to God and not to man, not to us.
Now there is a glorious ministry. And this is what we want to get into in the next lesson as we
talk about the ministry and what it is all about. So, God bless you. It has been a joy to share with
you.
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