For the Team!
A tradition in our community is the annual Christmas parade that takes place the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The parade is comprised of well over 100 entries, including marching bands, local merchants, politicians, schools, churches and, of course, Santa Claus. Each year our congregation has a float in the parade, but this year our missions director and worship director came up with a new idea-a flash mob. For those who don't know what a flash mob is, it is a coordinated dance to a popular song that is well organized and yet appears to be spontaneous, with participants coming together out of the crowd. This sounded good to me until...
Randy Raasch has served as pastor of First Immanuel Lutheran Church of Cedarburg, Wisconsin for 25 years. He has been an adjunct professor of theology at Concordia University Wisconsin since 1990. His personal mission statement is, I serve God by serving others.
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Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant (Philippians 2:3-7a ESV).
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