New Covenant UMC

Our North American culture tends to honor the competitive spirit. But naming “the greatest” is not just a recent obsession—seems it was a popular conversation among Jesus’ disciples too. But the pride of being number one can come at the cost of trampling others. Jesus turns the definition of being “first” upside-down: it is by serving others that we are lifted up and made whole. What relief and healing could come by letting go of the need to be right, to be first, or to “win?”