The 13 types of people you are meant to serve - Biblically Speaking

[jennifer_bloom]

1 - Religiously Devoted – Attract with agreement and not with conflict

2 - Outsider – Extend your generosity and your confidence

3 - Opposition – Distance yourself and work interventive methods

4 - Apprentice – Listen and don’t just talk and inform

5 - Upset – Mercifully sympathize with them and offer manual support

6 - Supportive – Show gratitude by service and express happiness with them

7 - Householder – Obey when the family is right and negotiate and do damage control when they are wrong

8 - Disabled – Bless with positive tokens of happiness and protect the emotional needs of the poor

9 - Righteous – Show reverence and respect and humility and protectiveness

10 - Impoverished – Maintain a respectful distance and do not allow yourself to be soiled when observing and offering companionship

11 - Boss – Be dedicated and sincere but do not be dishonest or materialistic

12 - Unsavoury - Let go of expectations and practice tolerance and patience

13 - Opposite Gender Romance – Treat the romance like a partnership and a beloved child you offer unconditional kindness too

[Jjpayne]

It is interesting that we don't always focus on people like this that we should serve. I feel like we commonly have blinders on to this at time. This list helps us to live with our eyes wide open

[Jjpayne]

Thank you :)

[genericname85]

lol 13 reasons not to follow the bible xD i'll "help" some of those. others i'll "obey" to some extend but i won't serve any of those.

[TheBalancedOne]

Help/obey and serve are all the same thing. It's you investing your being towards another's. As I wrote above to OddBeMe, it's what brings most reward, when you do not seek reward from it. But it ought to be done with passion, offering yourself where you know you have boundless energy to invest in. That's how you discover your place in life, "where you were born to serve".

[genericname85]

@TheBalancedOne words have different meanings for a reason and if someone just bunches them together, it's got the sole purpose to be vague. Another reason not to follow.

[zagor]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wC10VWDTzmU

All explained here:

[OddBeMe]

Why does religion preach servitude? Keeps me thinking it was mass population control.

[TheBalancedOne]

I am not speaking for all religions, because not all of them come from the same source of wisdom, I am only speaking for the Bible. The answer: Because serving each other is the opposite of enslaving each other. In other words it's the most beautiful thing in the world, and the way humans were designed to function originally. When you help another, without seeking reward, that is the "service" which the Bible teaches (seeks to bring humanity back to). And that kind of service is a reward in itself, as anyone who has experienced it will tell you, in any sphere of life. It is one of the life's greatest joys and pleasures.

It has nothing to do with mass population control, it's only perceived as such by individuals who are already mentally controlled by various kinds of deceptions. So that from their bondage they perceive that which is right as that which is wrong, and that which is wrong, as that which is right (in varying degrees).

Higher and more orderly ways of being are always perceived as a lack of freedom by those stuck in chaos (doing whatever they want to do, however they want to do it, whenever they want to do it, etc.) which they perceive as freedom, not realizing that they are the most enslaved of all.

[OddBeMe]

What makes you think there are higher and more orderly ways? Any proof other than your personal beliefs?

[buddies]

Religion does not preach servitude so much as it preaches humility. Jesus expects us to remember that no one is better than another. We are all His loved creations. And since we are not better than one another, we should be humble and kind, doing to others not only as we want them to do to us, but also as if we were doing it all to Christ Himself.

[OddBeMe]

@buddies Jesus teaches us that he’s better than everyone. And should be served. Right?

[buddies]

No. He teaches us respect for those in authority. He teaches us love towards everyone else. He wants you worship and love, but He will not force you to give it to him.
However I will point out that whether He teaches it or not, Jesus is better than us. He is perfect, the Son of God. Whereas we are only His most beloved creation, full of sin and unworthiness.

[OddBeMe]

@buddies Who says Jesus is authority?

[buddies]

God Himself says in the gospels that Jesus "is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased..." Since Jesus is the Son of God, and He is also the only one who can keep you out of Hell, that makes Him an authority.

[OddBeMe]

@buddies That sounds like servitude.

[buddies]

Acknowledging authority and being respectful towards it is not the same as servitude.

[OddBeMe]

@buddies Yeah, it is. We serve our countries by following the laws. It’s a social contract we make for safer lives. You submit to your god bc you think he’s all powerful. Though you have no proof of this.

[Natashakir72]

Does the bible really say this? Holy guacamole

[chris_987]

What denomination are you

[jennifer_bloom]

no denomination but i go to both baptist and pentecostal and calvinist and methodist churches

[chris_987]

What? Those denominations don’t get alone, plus they have different beliefs so how do you go to them all

[jennifer_bloom]

Well I don't agree with everything the pastor says and sometimes I go to correct views I disagree with - I mainly go to be around kind and loving people who share their kindness and time and friendship and respect with me - I also go to counsel and encourage and give advice to the ladies.

[chris_987]

So what don’t you agree with? The church stance on abortion? Or the no sex till marriage thing?

[jennifer_bloom]

no - I have no opinion on abortion and I agree people should wait until they are married to have sex - its other things like - did the flood of Genesis happen in the entire globe or only in Mesopotamia? Is slavery in the bible to show progressive improvements in legal provision or is an altogether allegorical law that does not directly correspond with any slavery context at all? Is it possible for a Christian to be worthy of salvation or is the best Christian worthless even after serving Jesus very diligently for 40 years? In the bible is oil a symbol for joy or is it a symbol for any form of worship at all? Why did Job suffer if the bible says the righteous do not suffer harm - is it because he was innocent and not righteous or not righteous at all or is it because he was good and not righteous - or does that rule only apply to certain types of people?

[Bethmelan123]

@Jennifer _bloom thank you.
Also, I don't have any denomination but I go to Pentecostal and Anglican churches... ONLY

[Bethmelan123]

Abortion is murder of a human being and no one has a right to do so

[chris_987]

Well job suffered and so did Jesus, so you can say Jesus wasn’t righteous, and salvation is free to any one who believes in gods sacrifice, you can add anything to his finish work on the cross, the works you do on earth determine what you will inherit in the kingdom. I’m sure all those other questions will be answered in the next life.

[CrazyRay43]

There is no God, there was no Jesus

[TheBalancedOne]

@CrazyRay43 That's incorrect, the Bible is one of the most historically attested documents, more than any other historical document actually.

[buddies]

Remember the important things as you serve God, and let the rest go. I have my own beliefs on the Flood, as well as abortion and fornication. However, whether the Flood took place all over the world or only locally does not determine where I will spend eternity. The murder of innocent lives (abortion) will not be supported by me simply because I cannot follow the commandments by doing so, thus resulting in sin.
The Devil loves to distract the children of God by getting them caught up in the little things. Be careful, and in guard.