<p>3:7 <i>Of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of His power</i>- All preaching work is to be done as a servant, after the pattern of the Lord Jesus, the servant of all. Being <i>made</i> a servant recalls Paul's language about how the Lord Jesus throughout His life and supremely in his death was &quot;made a servant&quot; (Phil. 2:7). Paul made himself a servant of all (1 Cor. 9:19), and yet here he says he was &quot;made a servant&quot; according to God's powerful working. God's game plan with us is to humble us, make us slaves- and insofar as we willingly seek to go along with that plan, He will work with us as we with Him. &quot;His power&quot; in that sense is perfected in human weakness (2 Cor. 12:9). &quot;The working of His power&quot; is a phrase Paul uses about God's work in each and every believer through the Spirit given to us (Eph. 1:19; 4:16), a &quot;working&quot; or Gk. 'energy' released within each of us through our baptismal association with the Lord's resurrection (Col. 2:12). Paul was not therefore a special case; we each have the same power working in us to achieve and enable the Lord's intended mission for each of us. It is only our dysfunction which doesn't allow it to operate fully.</p>