Story
Luke 14 opens at a Pharisee’s table where guests are eyeing the good chairs. Jesus tells them to take the lowest place, then tells…
Pride · Community · Humility
Luke 14
Quote
C.S. Lewis – Every Ability Belongs to God
Luke 12:35-40 – The Watchful Servants
C.S. Lewis put it this way: Every ability you have — your ability to think, to move, to act — is given to you by God. Even if you spent every moment of your entire life serving Him, you still couldn’t give Him anything that wasn’t already His in the first place. Some people live with a master mindset: “This is mine because I worked for it.” Jesus calls His followers to a servant mindset: “This was entrusted to me, and it belongs to Him.”
How you’d preach it
Excellent short quote for teaching open-handed stewardship of time, money, gifts, and relationships.
- Generosity
- Humility
- Readiness
Lewis · Luke 12
Luke 12:35-40