A "Five-Star" Servant (Philippians Chapter 2) #poetrymonday
- Oct 26, 2015
- 3 min read
Praise the Lord! We are pleased to announce that Poetry Monday is back!
Every week, we will be posting new poems that will help us creatively think about what the Word of God tells us!
This week, we'll be looking at Philippians Chapter 2, and what it tells us about being a "five-star" servant in God's Kingdom.
Within our church, we've been taking this year to study the concept of "Servant Leadership" and how we can follow the example of Christ; leading by first serving. With our Pastor being installed this year as Suffragan Bishop over Region 1 of the Central California District Council (CCDC), the 16th Episcopal Disctrict of the Pentecoastal Assemplies of the World, Inc. (PAW, Inc.), we've been able to take this Servant Leadership Model and make "serving" a vital part of how leadership is excercised throughout Region 1. When we look forward on how we can work to improve our ministries through servant leadership, we've seeked to impliment a "five-star" scale, with five being the "best by far", to set ministry goals and performance ratings that we can use for every ministry. When we define the ministry we believe God has given us, it is important that we take appropriate measuresto not only strengthen and grow our ministries, but develop our ministries into what God wants them to be by serving a "needy" world, and God's faithful servants, the best way we can!
This poem, written by our very own Pastor, Suffragan Bishop Thomas Alexander, Sr., addresses the "Five-Star" Servant by first looking at the Word! Everything we do in God's Kingdom must be supported by God's Word!
A "Five - Star" Servant
Philippians Chapter 2
When we think of things excelling,
Things defined as "best by far",
We devised a way to rate them,
And we use the words "Five Star".
Five Star simply means "the greatest"
Or the highest of it's kind.
Well, Philippians, Second Chapter
Tells us of a Five-Star "mind".
T'was a mind that did not glory
Though much glory Christ deserved
But He sought no reputation-
Throughout life He only served.
Think how He, the great Creator,
Showing us God's gracious plan,
Did lay aside His glory,
He became a humble man.
To portray the greatest service
He endured the greatest loss
When He served the world by dying-
Such a death upon a cross.
We are called to Five Star service.
Such a challenge-yet it's true.
For this chapter does exhort us
"Let this same mind be in you".
Look not on your selfish matters
But upon the needs of others,
Having tasted of Christ's comfort...
Serve your sisters and brothers.
Jesus now has been exalted
And His name excels by far
Soon each knee and tongue will show it,
That His glory is Five Star.
Lord make me a Five Star servant
That within some lowly station
I may serve with fear and trembling
Working out my own salvation.
- Suffragan Bishop Thomas Alexander, Sr., Pastor
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See you next week for another entry of #PoetryMonday!
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