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gospel with your family members or friends who don't know Jesus? I wrote a short

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Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

1st Corinthians, chapter 4 verses 1 and 2.

This is how one should regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

These are two of my favorite verses in the whole book of First Corinthians. The way that Paul describes himself and leaders in the church but really every follower of

Christ here it's twofold he says we should be regarded as servants of Christ and

the word there he uses for servants is a word that would be used to describe like the

under rower on a boat. So picture like the lowest galley of slaves on a boat. That's what the word is for servant here, like just row here, row there, do whatever

your master, the captain of the ship says to do.

So we're underowers.

We are servants of Christ.

He's the captain of our lives and we do whatever he says.

We go wherever he leaves.

We are servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. And the

mysteries of God there is a reference to the Gospel, the Cross of Christ, and we are

stewards of this Gospel. so we've been entrusted with this

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