How do we grow closer to God?
In this passage, Jesus washing the disciples' feet reveals a surprising foundation for intimacy with Christ. Many Christians long to feel closer to God but struggle with distance, frustration, or the sense that they're "doing all the right things" without experiencing His presence.
This sermon explores Peter's resistance to letting Jesus wash his feet and shows how we often do the same. Our pride, self-reliance, and desire to "clean ourselves up" before coming to God can actually keep us from the closeness we seek. Jesus doesn't ask us to fix ourselves first—He invites us to humbly receive His grace. True intimacy with Christ begins when we allow Him to serve us, meet us in our weakness, and wash what we cannot clean ourselves.
This week we open up John 11, looking at how we can find God in our pain and suffering.
"Evangelism is like one hungry beggar telling another hungry beggar where there is bread" - Charles Spurgeon. By looking at Paul's example in 1...
