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Loving By Serving
“Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,” said Jesus,
the greatest of servants. How can you express Christ’s love through service?
By Jerry Bridges
THE LATE DAWSON TROTMAN, founder of The Navigators, was visiting Taiwan on one of his overseas trips. During the visit he hiked with a Taiwanese pastor back into one of the mountain villages to meet with some of the national Christians. The roads and trails were wet, and their shoes became very muddy. Later, someone asked this Taiwanese pastor what he remembered most about Dawson Trotman. Without hesitation the man replied, “He cleaned my shoes.”
How surprised this humble national pastor must have been to arise the next morning and to realize that the Christian leader from America had arisen before him and cleaned the mud from his shoes. Such a spirit of servanthood marked Dawson Trotman throughout his Christian life. He died as he lived, actually giving his life to rescue someone else from drowning. . .
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Jerry Bridges
AuthorJerry Bridges, (1929 – 2016) was an evangelical Christian author, speaker and staff member of The Navigators. He earned his undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Oklahoma before serving as an officer in the United States Navy during the Korean War. He joined Christian discipleship organization The Navigators in 1955 where he eventually served as Vice President for Corporate Affairs. He was the author of more than a dozen books, including The Pursuit of Holiness, an award-winning works, Holiness Day by Day and The Discipline of Grace. He also enjoyed a robust international speaking ministry. He is remembered by the Navigators as “beloved evangelical statesman” and “a kind, gentle soul who desired nothing more than to walk humbly with his God.”
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AuthorJerry Bridges, (1929 – 2016) was an evangelical Christian author, speaker and staff member of The Navigators. He earned his undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Oklahoma before serving as an officer in the United States Navy during the Korean War. He joined Christian discipleship organization The Navigators in 1955 where he eventually served as Vice President for Corporate Affairs. He was the author of more than a dozen books, including The Pursuit of Holiness, an award-winning works, Holiness Day by Day and The Discipline of Grace. He also enjoyed a robust international speaking ministry. He is remembered by the Navigators as “beloved evangelical statesman” and “a kind, gentle soul who desired nothing more than to walk humbly with his God.”
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