serv·ice
[sur-vis]
noun an act of helpful activity; help; aid: to do someone a service.
Service is a word you hear often growing up in the LDS Church. You're taught principles of service, you plan service activities, you attend service activities, and you're encouraged to incorporate service into your daily actions. Maybe you love service. Maybe you enjoy the satisfaction that comes from helping others. Maybe service is something you dread, but you do it because you feel guilty otherwise.
Well guess what. I think service is wonderful. But I also think there are flaws in how it is presented.
I didn't always think this way; it all started when I took a class in Fall 2013 at Brigham Young University called Learning Through Service. This opened my eyes to all of the ineffective forms of service.
Service is a word you hear often growing up in the LDS Church. You're taught principles of service, you plan service activities, you attend service activities, and you're encouraged to incorporate service into your daily actions. Maybe you love service. Maybe you enjoy the satisfaction that comes from helping others. Maybe service is something you dread, but you do it because you feel guilty otherwise.
Well guess what. I think service is wonderful. But I also think there are flaws in how it is presented.
I didn't always think this way; it all started when I took a class in Fall 2013 at Brigham Young University called Learning Through Service. This opened my eyes to all of the ineffective forms of service.
Ineffective forms of service?
Yeah. I didn't know that was real. I thought all service was good- even if it doesn't achieve the desired results, at least you're trying, right? As long as you try, you get blessings, right? Right. But wrong.
My goal for this blog is to unravel some of the misunderstandings concerning service. Hopefully by first understanding there are ineffective forms of service, learning through service will allow an improvement which will alter interactions within society.
"In serving others you will find yourself."
-President Spencer W. Kimball
"In serving others you will find yourself."
-President Spencer W. Kimball
I am really excited to see what you have to say about service. I have never really thought about a right or wrong way of serving besides the attitude that we take towards the service, but it seems to me that you have some great insights to share.
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