The Start of our Pursuit

The Start of our Pursuit

PURSUIT: What values drive our actions?

We view serving others as our most important role as followers of Jesus.

Moving from Self-preservation to Serving

Part 1 of Pursuit

1. Commencement: Self-preservation is only the healthy beginning.
1. Self: We need a foundation of self-respect since we are made in the image of God.
2. All: Once we can properly value ourselves, we can work towards valuing all, regardless of how different they are from us.
3. Self-less: From valuing ourselves, we can begin to imitate Jesus and serve selflessly.
2. Cultivation: Moving from consumerism to consumed by Gospel.
1. Consumerism: Consumerism is only possible when Gospel and our involvement is small.
2. Calling: Once we stop being spoonfed, we can see for ourselves our role in the bigger picture.
3. Consumed: This starts the lifelong journey of constantly being consumed by and transformed by the Gospel.
3. We come most alive when our lives are not centered on ourselves and our families.
1. Alive: Just like Jesus and the seed that must die first, our lives aren’t fully alive until we die to ourselves.
2. Centered: Our lives and our world is drastically smaller when centered on ourselves.
3. Larger: As we step in the larger roles in our larger communities, these larger Kingdom values drive us.
4. Culmination: Understand our call to be servants, not leaders.
1. Ahead: Jesus was the example, in the sense that he showed the way, but didn’t use the language of  leadership.
2. With: Jesus was not a leader that welded power and authority over others.
3. Under: Though Jesus had infinite power but he laid it down to serve and come under people instead of rule over people.