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Curated Sermon Illustrations from John 13
Explore powerful illustrations to bring John 13 to life. Discover stories, analogies, humor and more as you illustrate the timeless truths of the gospel.
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Starting With the Boots
In 1878, when William Booth’s Salvation Army was beginning to make its mark, men and women from all over the world began to enlist. One man, who had once dreamed of becoming a bishop, crossed the Atlantic from America to enlist. Samuel Brengle left a fine pastorate to join Booth’s Army. But at first, General Booth accepted his services reluctantly and grudgingly. Booth said to Brengle, “You’ve been your own boss too long.” And in order to instill humility in Brengle, he set him to work cleaning the boots of other trainees.
Discouraged, Brengle said to himself, “Have I followed my own fancy across the Atlantic in order to black boots?” And then, as in a vision, he saw Jesus bending over the feet of rough, unlettered fishermen. “Lord,” he whispered, “you washed their feet, I will black their shoes.” As Samuel Logan Brengle willingly and lovingly bent over those dirty boots, he experienced servanthood and therefore success, for he was living like Jesus. Evidently, it was a lesson well learned: Brengle went on to live a life of profound servanthood, even as the Army’s first American-born commissioner.
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