Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, January 17th.

The Bible calls believers to a life of helping others, but that begins with an attitude of the heart.

Our series continues highlighting a life of service as part of living the extraordinary life.

Several years ago I was in the Philippines and speaking to a group who were part of the rally there

and then the rally and a number of churches and so forth and so one night this gentleman said to me I want to introduce you tonight.

And so I will never forget what he said.

In fact it's the only introduction that I could ever remember.

It was the shortest one I've ever heard,

but it impacted me in ways that I cannot describe.

In fact, when he introduced me,

it's like an arrow and straight to my heart.

Here's what he said.

He said, tonight it's my pleasure to introduce to you and he called my name.

Then a slight pause and then he said,

Servant of the Most High God.

You know what, I didn't, I saw people clapping,

but I didn't hear them.

The only thing that I could hear was

servant of the most high God. Did you know that when you trusted Jesus Christ as your personal savior you became a servant of the most high God?

You say, oh now I think that's for preachers and missionaries and so forth, no it's not. listen to what Paul said when he was writing to the

efficient Christians and he wasn't writing the pastors he was writing to people just

like you and me writing the people in the church then here's what he said.

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