Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter by chapter verse by

verse study through the entire Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck

continues his message, what it means to be a minister as we pick up in John chapter 13 verse 17.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. He is talking to his disciples

who were to be the first ministers in the church. And as a minister, you're not to get a glorified

exalted opinion of yourself and thinking that people ought to start waiting on you, because after all, you're the minister.

They ought to bring you a cup of coffee when you come in.

They ought to come over and ask if they can do something for you, you know, and make you comfortable.

And after all, I'm the minister, you know.

And unfortunately, many ministers get that kind of a

mindset that because I'm the minister, I should be waited upon and taken care of. Not so.

That isn't what the word minister implies at all. The word minister is the word servant.

And what it means is that I am the one that

should be bringing you a cup of coffee and bringing you a chair and taking care of you, making

sure that you're comfortable. And whenever I think I'm so high and mighty that you've got to

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