Service as a Spiritual Discipline
While I was writing and thinking about service this week, James (from “Idle musings of a bookseller”) pointed me to an article by Scot McKnight called “Spiritual Disciplines… for a Church 3.”
Scot tells the following story about a church:
We began to ask people in our community one simple question: “How can we help?†He admitted they were doing things they never expected to do, but that one question — call it the single-most important missional question — can change a church if the church will listen, and will do.
You should read his post. It’s about the difference between focusing on growing a church and focusing on serving others.