The concept of serving in the New Testament

Abstract

Today, the term 'serving' has lost its significance because it is not used anymore in the modern vocabulary. Living in the twentieth century means living in a struggle to aqcuire high positions, struggling to have power and dominion over others. It's living in a world of competition. We're living in a pagan world where serving is considered as something indignitous. We're re-echoing the Greek philosophers by our way of life that the aim of the human life is in the perfect development of the individual's personality, thus we are blocked from every sense of service towards our neighbour. Today's man can serve only his aspirations. The following chapters are meant to help us understand better the meaning of 'serving' as presented in the New Testament How Christ considered himself as the 'Servant of the Lord' in spite of His Divinity and how we, following His footsteps and the early Christians', are called to be ' servants' in a world yearning for power and glory.