So, if you are not serving them by washing their feet, why do it? He said he was spiritually serving them by doing it, but couldn’t explain just how they were spiritually served.

Then i pointed out to him that he/they only do the foot washing publicly, when there is a group to witness it. They would never visit someone and wash their feet in private. This indicates that the reason they are doing it is to be SEEN doing it. And Jesus said that if we do anything to be seen, then we have no reward from our Father in heaven.

What would they have been like without this lesson?

It’s a shame that christendom replaced this lesson with something else.

If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.

I think a lot of believers are not happy bcos they don’t wash feet.

Let’s pray. Let’s wash one another’s feet in prayer, first.

Sometimes we are “called” to labor in prayer for someone. But we refuse to wash their feet that way. Washing feet is unglorious, and the short-sighted Christian may also think that private prayer is unglorious.