Josh Blair Ministry Podcast

In this final message of our “To Serve” series, we explore how the spiritual discipline of service doesn’t stop at random good deeds or one-off projects—it’s meant to form our hearts to look like Jesus.  We walk through the four components of a life of service: receiving God’s love, serving in hiddenness, living intentionally and interruptibly, and finally stepping into kinship—taking strangers, turning them into neighbors, and neighbors into family. Drawing from Matthew 20, we see how Jesus flips the idea of greatness upside down: in His kingdom, the greatest is the servant of all. Then in Luke 16, through the story of the rich man and Lazarus, we see how God knows the names and stories of those the world overlooks and calls us not just to help from a distance, but to share life with them. This message wrestles honestly with the tension: kinship is beautiful, but it’s also risky, messy, and not always predictable. Still, every person we serve is worth it. As we head into seasons like Thanksgiving and bey