Just a side note to give you a picture of the Campus Outreach staff at Khon Kaen University: there are 12 staff members, 5 of whom are Thai and 7 of whom grew up in America. These men and women have given up the American Dream, a life of comfort and security, to reach thousands of Buddhist men and women who may live and die without never hearing the name of Jesus. It was so encouraging and refreshing to see the the lives of the COT staff reflecting the life of Christ in their daily pursuit of knowing him and making his name known among the nations. Laboring beside them and doing basically everything they do on a daily basis as far as ministry with students, opened my eyes so much to the of lives of those who are in
Now, I touched on this earlier in recording what the Lord has taught me and is still teaching me, that is reflecting Christ life with our own, and want to share with you a bit more.
"5Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." -Philippians 2:5-11
Christ, who was in the form of God and is God came to earth to serve man.
"What more unnatural than that the God of the universe should become a servant in the world, ministering not to His Father only, but also to His creatures- Our Lord and Master washing our very feet? So mighty was His love, so colossal the divine purpose to save, that He though nothing of His divine majesty, nothing is His unsullied blessedness, nothing of His equality with God, but, absorbed in us- our needs, our misery, our helplessness. He made no account of himself. If this is to be our example, what limit can we set to our self sacrifice?"
-B.B. Warfield
Wow. If our example as believers, as Christ followers, is to be Christ, let all of our dignity, possessions & wealth, and our rights perish out of plain sight because Christ has saved us and called us into service. We are soldiers of the King, let fight in this short life for the joy of our King and for his majesty, glory, righteousness, never ending and unconditional love be shown to all of the earth.
A HUGE resource that helped me better understand this concept of our duty and calling as Christians to literally strive to mirrow Christ's image with our lives is an article called "Imitating The Incarnation" by B.B. Warfield
Click here to view & DL this article- "Imitating the Incarnation" by B.B. Warfield
I love you team. Please pray for the lost souls that are being shown who Jesus is more and more every week as our CO Thailand team follows up with the students we engaged this summer.
"What more unnatural than that the God of the universe should become a servant in the world, ministering not to His Father only, but also to His creatures- Our Lord and Master washing our very feet? So mighty was His love, so colossal the divine purpose to save, that He though nothing of His divine majesty, nothing is His unsullied blessedness, nothing of His equality with God, but, absorbed in us- our needs, our misery, our helplessness. He made no account of himself. If this is to be our example, what limit can we set to our self sacrifice?"
-B.B. Warfield
Wow. If our example as believers, as Christ followers, is to be Christ, let all of our dignity, possessions & wealth, and our rights perish out of plain sight because Christ has saved us and called us into service. We are soldiers of the King, let fight in this short life for the joy of our King and for his majesty, glory, righteousness, never ending and unconditional love be shown to all of the earth.
"Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him." -2 Timothy 2:3-4
"We cannot be self-consciously self-forgetful, selfishly-unselfish. Only, when we humbly walk this path, seeking truly in it not our own things, but those of others, we shall find the promise true, that he who loses his life shall find it." -B.B. Warfield
Self-sacrifice, through forgetting our very self as Christ did to serve the world, is the path to bringing glory to God.
A HUGE resource that helped me better understand this concept of our duty and calling as Christians to literally strive to mirrow Christ's image with our lives is an article called "Imitating The Incarnation" by B.B. Warfield
Click here to view & DL this article- "Imitating the Incarnation" by B.B. Warfield
I love you team. Please pray for the lost souls that are being shown who Jesus is more and more every week as our CO Thailand team follows up with the students we engaged this summer.
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