Downton Abbey Blog # 2

This episode was shorter than the first one. I wished that this one was longer. In this episode we meet new characters. We meet Matthew and his mother. Matthew has the opportunity to be the next heir if he marries Robert's daughter. Matthew is a different kind of guy. He does not like to have servants around. He is independent and seems to like doing things his own way. We see more of the characteristics of Mr. Roberts. Mr. Roberts is very compassionate and not judging at all. Mr. Garson is exposed by an old friend by his past. He was a performer and it was very embarrassing for him. This friend was framing him for money and came to Robert's house. Garson expected that he would be fired, but Robert told him that he was to stay and even was going to give money to him. We see the character of compassion in Roberts.

In this episode I see the theme of knowing your roles. We see this with Matthew and the servant that is disposed to him. Matthew did not let his servant help him with the things that was the job of the servant. The servant felt out of place because he was not able to do his job. We see that Roberts talks to Matthew about letting the servants do their job because it is their role and almost their identity. Not letting them do their job is like taking away their identity. Once Matthew lets this man be in his role, the servant takes pride and his confident again. We see the role with Isabel. She did not want Matthews mother to be involved in the hospital. Isabel did not see that it was the role of Matthew's mother to be doing that. We see though that the mother steps out of her role and saves a man's life.
 We see the idea of roles in the Bible. We see that we all have apart in the body of Christ. We all have a purpose and we all have different gifts. We have different assignments that the Lord gives us. One thing I do know though that our roles should not define who we are. In the pastoral sense it should not be about position or title. We are all equal. So the pastor is not greater than the janitor. It should not about having a title it is solely about loving Jesus and being a servant. This generation is driven today by what title they have and it really makes me sad. We shouldn't live by what name we are given by others. It was sad to me that the servant butler was given his worth by his title. I feel like we are all equal and no one is greater than the other. I feel like churches need to learn this more.