Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.
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A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.
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Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.
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Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded in biblical values, serves others by liberating them. It acknowledges that people bear the image of God and treats them in a way that will nurture the development of that image. In so doing, we honor their Creator.
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Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.
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