Servanthood

Servanthood.

“You're here serving, you're not a servant. Serving is the supreme art. God is the first of servants. God serves men, but he's not a servant to men.”
- Life is Beautiful

Upon googling 'servanthood' I found that it is mostly a Christian term. On some blogs it's a term used to describe 'Holy Doormats' who seem to have no other call on their life other than taking direction from the pastor or deacons. Other sources say that servathood is a job left to the elderly of the church who are either to old for ‘real ministry’ or those who have chosen abject poverty for the sake of being a better Christian.
When I looked to the scripture Ro. 15:1 I see a different picture entirely. Servanthood is depicted here as a ‘job’ for the strong. It is a job that requires selflessness and wisdom hardly the picture I was given with the ‘Holy Doormat’ approach.
Philippians 2:4-11 also continues that picture; a servant should be humble, willing to do whatever it will take to please those they’re serving.
1 Peter 5:2-4 then states that those who have humbled them selves as servants will be given the responsibility to take care of others.

Serving (as depicted in class) seems to have a circular effect, first you serve your leader as a follower, and then you serve your followers as a leader and it continues.

We can practice servanthood in every day just by practicing good common sense, asking how some one is doing, cleaning up some one else’s dishes. It shouldn’t be an abstract term that has to be brought to some ones attention.