John 13:13-14

“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am.  Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

From Background Notes [BN] for March 24^th/25^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

What follows in 13:12-17 some scholars see as yet a second application of the foot-washing event…

We would suggest that Jesus is simply working out the important implications embedded in his teaching about the cross, dramatized in the foot-washing. Jesus opens this part of the conversation with a  question: "Do you understand what I have done for you (13:12b)?" The question alone is worth pondering in its own right! Might we not argue that the whole of one's life as a Christian is spent answering that question? Did not someone as committed to Jesus as Paul once write: "That I might know him…" (Philippians 3:10), and then go on to say that he had not yet completed this task, but made it his life's work to do so? By posing the question, Jesus throws down the challenge of being a disciple, namely, discovering the truth contained in the cross of Jesus. What does Jesus have in mind for the disciples on this occasion? To answer that question is to face squarely what it means for us to be servants also.   [BN,7]

Come join us this week for the Passion Play. It is titled I've Just Seen Jesus. Performance dates and times are as follows:

Friday March 23 at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday March 24 at 6:00 p.m.
Sunday March 25 at 6:00 p.m.