In general terms, service is a willing, working and doing in which a person acts not according to his own purposes or plans but with a view to the purpose of another person and according to the need, disposition, and direction of others. It is an act whose freedom is limited and determined by the other's freedom, an act whose glory becomes increasingly greater to the extent that the doer is not concerned about his own glory but about the glory of the other......It is ministrium Verbi divini, which means, literally, "a servant's attendance on the divine Word". The expression "attendance" may call to mind the fact that the New Testament concept of the Diakonos originally meant "a waiter"/ [We] must wait upon the high majesty of the divine Word, which is God himslef as he speaks in his action.
KARL BARTH
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