10 Service: Hiddenness

<p>Where does your imagination go when you consider where you can serve?Perhaps it leads you to your local church, the care home nearby, or the low- income neighborhood in your city. For some of us, these very well could be the places Jesus is leading us to give more of ourselves — more on that in the sessions to come. But if we consider Jesus’ life, and specifically the environments where he chose to serve, we see a recurring theme: Jesus often served in very ordinary spaces — in homes and marketplaces, at water wells and dinner tables, even in what we could call his “daily commute.”What if our greatest opportunities to practice loving service are not in places we have yet to enter, but where we already are? Familiar places like our offices, homes, and neighborhoods — among people who know us and whom we know in return. For most of us, serving in these environments is much more challenging than picking up a ladle at a soup kitchen or mowing a stranger’s lawn. But when we choose to serve in them anyway, these environments become places of deep formation where we can be transformed into people of love.Teacher: Caleb SprinkleText: Various</p>