Join me today for my Sunday message in the "Last Words" series on the Last Supper Discourses, "Do as I Have Done." Pictured here is a towel that we gave to each new deacon or trustee at their installation service when we were pastoring the Altus church. I would preach from John 13:1-17, the story of Jesus washing the Disciple's feet and then during the installation I would place this towel on each person's shoulder and tell them, "Here is the symbol of your high office. Go now and do as the Master has done for us"

Service that is many ways "humiliating" is becoming a lost art in our "me first" world. And yet it is the very thing Jesus calls His disciples to demonstrate to the world every day. " Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him."

Humbling ourselves to do the best for the least, the last and the lost is a universal, unyielding call to all who serve the Master and the Mission.