Copyright © 2005 by Tony
Garland
Jesus: the Servant Leader
Please turn in your Bible with me to John chapter
13.
Last week, Pastor Greg began teaching on this
famous passage in John's gospel which record's Jesus washing the feet
of His disciples. John chapter 13 verse 3:
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe [them] with the towel with which He was girded. (John 13:3-5 )
Continuing at verse 12:
So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for [so] I am. If I then, [your] Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. “(John 13:12-15)
Jesus indicates in the same way He served the
disciples, they should serve one another.
