He will show you a large upper room furnished. (Luke 22:12)

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. (John 13:14)

A friend of mine once had a job briefly at a car rental agency. The job didn't last for long because the owner of the agency complained that my friend was too nice, too diplomatic with the customers. He felt that if my friend were left alone he would probably end up giving the cars away - "giving away the store!" The idea behind this expression, "giving away the store," is that if we are too nice to people we won't be in business for long.

During this Lenten series of messages we have been thinking together about the assertion that it is not our calling as Christians to "win souls for Christ," to get everyone to acce…