What to Say When Someone Calls You “Good”

by Herb Reese

New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog

What to Say When Someone Calls You “Good”

By Herb Reese

How should Christians respond when someone praises them as good? After mowing a widow’s lawn, Herb Reese encounters that question from a neighbor. Drawing on Jesus’ teaching about servants doing their duty, he reflects on humility, everyday obedience, and how a simple response can encourage others to serve people too.

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Herb Reese

Herb Reese is an author, public speaker and President of New Commandment Men's Ministries. Herb has a B.A. in History from UCLA and a Th.M. in Pastoral Ministries from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has done post graduate work in The History of Ideas at University of Texas, Dallas and in Church Administration at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. After serving as a pastor over a period of twenty years, Herb founded New Commandment Men's Ministries, a ministry dedicated to helping churches recruit, train, organize and deploy teams of men who permanently adopt their widowed and single parents. Herb has served as President of New Commandment since 2003 and has helped 1,000 churches develop men's team ministries in all 50 states and eight foreign countries. Herb and his wife, Patti, live in Arvada, Colorado, and have three adult children.

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