Some Wrong Reasons to Serve God

That's the title of a piece written by Howard Travis of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Midland, Michigan. It's great!

Reasons not to serve?

• Guilt (Travis distinguishes between guilt and conviction, analogous to the distinction I draw between shame and guilt. We just use different terms.)

• Pressure

• To please people (See here.)
  

• Pride

• To earn salvation (See here.)
  

It's a distillation of material from the book, Shoulder to Shoulder: Strengthening Your Church by Supporting Your Pastor by Dan Reiland. This is good stuff to remember when reading all of the stuff on servanthood appearing on this blog during this Lent.