serving – Three Minute Bible

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025

Colossians 3:22a – Doing Our Job Well

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything …

Summary: Understanding Paul’s words often depends on understanding the Greek word he uses. In this case, the word “slave” can be misleading if we don’t look deeper.

The use of the word “slaves” in this passage is disturbing to a lot of people. It should be. Forcing people to serve us under threat of torture or death is horrible. It is basically stealing people’s lives from them.

If this passage were all about slaves, we could skip it and move on.

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020

1 Peter 1:12 (a) — Whom do you serve?

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven.

What sets a prophet apart is being called by God to be a messenger of God’s Word. I am capitalizing “Word” because these messages are holy. Mundane or spectacular, the Word from God is special. But never forget, prophets are people, too. They are not Superman. They have feelings like you and me.