If we fail to begin with this idea: that the ultimate blessing in life is to be used by the Lord Jesus for the advancement of His Kingdom, it is inevitable that we will be an anthropocentric society, tragically focused on the individual, whether we are consciously aware of it or not.
In other words, any desire to be blessed that doesn't find it's deepest motive in the joy of corporate worship is at it's deepest root a self-centered desire. The Great Commission is to share the Gospel, not to hoard it! The Great Commandment is to love others. None of this psycho-bable, "I have to learn to love myself before I can love others" garbage! Jesus said you will know who my children are by the way they love others, in total self-sacrifice. This idea of self-sacrifice is not a face value concept, but a matter that reaches to the deepest regions of the heart.
Here's the bad news: this problem is necessarily a chronic condition in all of us, given our sinful natures. The GOOD NEWS is Jesus can fix us! He promises to sanctify us in this Truth, so that we might become trained to squelch our selfishness before it captures our present attitude. When our attitudes are clouded in self-centeredness we render ourselves temporarily useless in the Kingdom of Christ...every honest Christian knows this from experience.
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