  Last night at our Thursday night Bible study, we had a great night of questions and exploring a side of Jesus we don't like much. What about Jesus could we not possibly like? Good question. In John 13, Jesus is having a meal with his disciples, and gets up from the table and washes his disciples feet. Foot washing was a task for the lowest person on the social chain which usually was your slave. The creator of the heavens and the earth bowing before the Twelve's feet, washing each foot delicately. The same feet that would hours later flee his side. What kind of image of God do we get from Jesus stopped down scubbing the dirt of Peter's gnarly toes? Jesus is reavealing a side of God we need to be more aware of, that He would go to any length to demonstrate His love and devotion to us. But, footwashing. Jesus was a King, why in the world would a king wash his followers feet? Onbject lesson of the first degree.
Jesus gave them, and us by the way, an example of the kind of humble service we are to offer to one another. No task is to unimportant for Jesus, and since we are His followers, no task is to unimportant for us. Also, last night a few of my teens and I went to serve at the Compassion Center. The Compassion Center is a ministry of our church that serves food, provides clothes, and medical care on a weekly basis free of charge to those in the community who need such help. I love to bring my teens into a situation that is different from the nice neat and clean atmosphere they are used too. Our mission as of late has been to once a month bring two big platters of cheese and crackers. The people who have come for help love it, and my teens who have come on a regular basis also enjoy helping others. Jesus said in Matthew 25, that whatever you do for the least of these my brethern you have done for me.
I am trying to instill in my students that when they serve food at the Compassion Center, they are really serving Christ through what they are offering to the people at the Compassion Center. Two of the teens who went last night to serve at the CC, came to Bible study and the scence of Jesus washing the disciples feet came alive as they realized how service is connected to the person and work of Christ. 
