Servathon

Everyone wants to do something great with their life. Jesus said the path runs through the last place most of us would look — toward serving the person right in front of us. This message is a call to stop waiting for your moment and start using the one you're already in.

Anchored in Mark 10, where James and John come to Jesus asking for seats of honor, we unpack why the desire to be part of something significant isn't wrong — it's how we reach for it that usually is. Jesus reframes greatness as servanthood, and 2 Kings 3 puts the idea on display: three kings stand desperate for a word from God and find help through Elisha, a man known simply as the one who poured water on the hands of Elijah. Along the way we look at what it means to begin with the end in mind — the words "well done, good and faithful servant" — and the three things that happen when we start serving. Our eyes come off of ourselves. Others begin to ask why we're doing it. And the grace God gives to the humble begins to settle on our lives in a way nothing else opens.

Scriptures referenced in this episode: Matthew 25:23, Mark 10:35–45, Matthew 23:11, 2 Kings 3:5–22, Isaiah 6:8.