{"id":1701,"date":"2020-10-30T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2024-01-29T20:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:12:36","slug":"matthew-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/matthew-2026-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 20:26-27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column1701_37e75d-b8 inner-column-1\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>THE INWARD LIFE OF A STEWARD<\/strong><br><strong>Surrender<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large\">\n<p><em><em>It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/671213433?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything about following Christ is counter-cultural. <strong>Matthew 20:26-27<\/strong> highlights a couple of these paradoxes. Jesus says, <em>It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave <\/em>(RSV)<em>. <\/em>According to Jesus, the way to make it to the top is by going to the bottom, and the way to make it to the front is by going to the back. There is nothing about this reasoning that makes any sense, except for the fact that the One who created us tells us that is the way we end up where we want to be. The question we must ask ourselves is, \u201cAre we going to do it our way or Jesus\u2019 way?\u201d <strong><em>Think about it<\/em><\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/luke-923\/\">Next Stewardship Minute<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,68],"tags":[149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}