Surf vs Serve

We had the privilege to join Dobbo and Carmien at St Mathews church in Manly for a beautiful message from pastor Scott Petty.

He started the message explaining that anywhere else in the world the second question you get after "whats your name?" when you meet someone new is "what do you do?". However in Manly the second question usually is "do you surf 🏄?".

He then said equally as a christian you should be asked different second question from others and that is: "Do you serve?" If you don't serve you would be unbalanced as a non surfer would be on a surfboard.

The mission of this church is: Growing Gods church through the Gospel. This mission is build on 3 pillars of which #3 is Service.
- Bible & Prayer
- Community
- Service

The scripture was Acts 6: 1-7

> Service is not for everyone - the apostle was not able to do everything so they focused on teaching the message of the gospels and they delegated tasks like service of food to other mature brothers in Christ.
> Every christian is a minister, service is for everyone - each of us has a responsibility to serve in our churches, our circle of friends, at work and wherever we go, as this shines God's light if we do so.

Serving can take on a lot of different forms and doesn't necessarily require us to preach and pray to everyone.

God has laid it in my heart today that we have a responsibility to serve even on our travels. First of all no matter where the road takes us we need to shine God's light. Secondly we need to serve our friends that we visit all around the world with words of encouragement and simple things like baby sitting in-order for them to get some much needed alone time together etc.

I pray today that God will use us to serve on this trip. That God will show us what our friends need and how we can serve them. I thank God for the opportunity to embark on this journey. Amen 🙏

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