The Servant's Manual

In 1998, a young seminary student sat in John MacArthur's expository preaching class at The Master's Seminary, struggling with a passage. He had been assigned Galatians 5:13, and he kept circling one Greek word: douleuete. Paul could have chosen any number of terms for service, but he deliberately selected the verb form of doulos — a bondservant, one who has surrendered all rights to a master.…