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Mark Driscoll Audio

Jesus And True Greatness

Mark Driscoll Audio

Mark Driscoll

History, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Jesus, God, Mark, Gospel, Pastor, Society & Culture, Driscoll

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jesus’ disciples argue over who is the greatest, but Jesus doesn’t rebuke their desire, he redirects it. He redeems the pursuit of greatness, showing the difference between worldly and godly greatness. True, godly greatness is simply service. Are you selfish or a servant? When we live a life that glorifies God and serves others, we receive joy in this life and eternal rewards in the life to come.

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0:00.0

On behalf of Pastor Mark Driscoll, we want to thank you for allowing us to bring you

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Jesus-centered Bible teaching.

0:09.8

Like Pastor Mark always says, it's all about Jesus.

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To get all of Pastor Mark's sermons, blogs, books, and other content, please visit us at

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markdriscoll.org.

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There you can also sign up to receive additional free content from Pastor Mark and support this

0:29.0

ministry with a gift of any amount.

0:31.8

Thank you.

0:32.8

We've got three sons, a small medium and large, and they all play baseball, which means

0:40.0

I get to spend a lot of time at little league practice and little league games, and I get

0:44.1

to have chats and conversations with the parents and such.

0:47.6

Invariably, they'll ask, oh, so what do you do for a living?

0:50.4

Recently, I have one of those conversations with a guy who works actually in politics,

0:55.2

really nice lady, and she helps with political campaigns and with various bills that come

1:01.3

up for vote and such.

1:03.7

And she's telling me about her job and then she inevitably asks, what do you do?

1:07.2

And that's like, oh, man, that's usually the conversation-killing question.

1:12.0

Pastor, I kind of say, like I'm sneezing, like, Pastor.

1:16.2

I said Pastor, and that did not dissuade her.

1:19.0

She proceeded to continue to ask questions, which is very rare.

1:23.0

Usually, as soon as they say Pastor, they fake like they got a phone call, like, oh, I

1:27.2

got to take this goodbye forever and they walk away.

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