Sevant

This week we begin worship with:

Luke 17:7-8

“Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him

when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? Will he

not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me

while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’?

This passage is strange by modern standards. I regularly thank my employees for what they have done (v9) and in a few weeks I will take my team leads out for a celebratory dinner. 

The servant here is doulos.  It means “slave” and comes from the word deō, which means to bind.  This is not the law we operate under in North Carolina, where employment is at will. Rather they are bound to their current circumstances. 

We too are doulos and serve God.  The point of this passage is that no matter how good we serve we are still a servant (Romans 6:22).

Luke 17:10

So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants;we have only done what was our duty.’”