Full Service: Moving From Self-Serve Christianity To Total Servanthood
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Is servanthood a way to lead or a way of life? Leadership has its place in Christian ministry, but God calls us, first and foremost, to servanthood. Servant is not a modifier for some other activity but the foundation of the Christian life.
Siang-Yang Tan calls the church back to its primary role of being servants of Christ and other people. This genuine Spirit-inspired servant attitude will enable you to enter more deeply into God’s rest and grace and will revolutionize your life and ministry.
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- Calls the church back to its primary role of being servants of Christ.
- Enables you to enter more deeply into God’s rest and grace.
- Explores the vast literature on servanthood and leadership.
True service is close to the heart of all who are following hard after Jesus. For this reason I welcome Full Service by Siang-Yang Tan. Dr. Tan has wonderfully distilled and critiqued the vast literature on servanthood and leadership, and in addition, given us practical insights into how servanthood looks in daily life. Full Service is itself a genuine act of service.
--Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline; founder, RENOVARÉ
Siang-Yang Tan is a frighteningly prolific reader and thinker. In Full Service he distills the essence of an enormous amount of Christian thought on what mattered most to Jesus. I have benefited from Siang-Yang’s servanthood as a student, beginning writer, and friend. This book is an act of servanthood for you!
--John Ortberg, author, God Is Closer Than You Think; teaching pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church
Finally, the cart has been put back behind the horse! With his typical style that is scholarly, biblically based, and accessible, Siang-Yang Tan reminds us that Jesus’ call to servanthood is both primary and universal. Leadership is a secondary calling that is given to a few. Because the phrase ‘servant-leader’ may have the same ego appeal as ‘tither-tycoon’ to our fast-growth-oriented culture, it is timely to receive this gentle reminder from Dr. Tan that the secret of true servanthood is developing a friendship with Jesus.
--Gary W. Moon, editor, Conversations journal; author, Falling for God