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What a privilege it was for me on Sunday, though heavy with a cold and losing my voice, to preach the final sermon in a very important series at New Life, Scunthorpe. The series, “Service with a Smile” was designed to help the church launch a volunteer revolution and to encourage newlifers understand more about themselves and feel confident in offering their service to God.

The end of the series brought the start of a new season – a season where newlifers recognise how God has knitted them together and where leaders engage with people on this journey and create opportunities for meaningful service.

You can hear this final message in the series by clicking above. The message is highly New Life specific but I hope the heart of it is clear – for the Church of Jesus to embrace this journey from servitude into servanthood releasing resource into local churches everywhere.

God bless.

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I wonder if you have ever engaged in some act of Christian service and done so with great effort but soon found that there is no joy in it and that it seems a bit of a chore. Perhaps you’re feeling like that right now – about the acts of service your engaging in within your local church. The last thing you would call this is Service with a Smile – yet in your heart of hearts you know that serving Jesus and his church should be rewarded with joy and peace and happiness.

In Session 3 of a recent series of talks titled, “Service with a Smile, I explain that the cause of this is all down to the type of fuel we put in at our spiritual service station. The talk causes us to take a look at our motivations and often well hidden roots of our service and highlights 3 possible areas of concern. If you like you can think of them as 3 types of fuel which are incompatible with Service with a Smile.

If we want joy and peace and happiness as a bi-product of our service then we have to discover a place where our primary motivation is love. But what happens when far too many believers have guilt or duty or favour as a catalyst for their service.

Find out by continuing to listen to this podcast and the 3rd part of the series Service with a Smile.
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This is Russ Westfield saying God bless and thanks for listening.

Have you ever visited a store or perhaps a restaurant where the service you received was spoiled by just one thing – the lack of a smile from those serving you. It is amazing how such a small thing can negate an otherwise satisfactory experience.

I wonder if God ever watches us going about our Christian business and longs for a smile to go along with it.

Far too many believers use their talents and gifts for God but seem to reap no joy; only discontent or frustration. Perhaps you are one of them. Trapped in a place of lifeless servitude rather than joyful servanthood.

In my message “Service with a Smile” you can discover simple ways to break through this barrier and enhance your life, resource the church and impact your community. No great leaps of faith are required – just small changes to our behaviour and mindset.

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Happy listening and God bless.