Section 12
minister some sort of foot washing and wiping to your brothers and sisters. This is what we need. This is the real love that maintains the fellowship among us. It is by this kind of foot washing and wiping that the spiritual fellow ship can maintain the church life. Without it, the church life cannot be maintained because the fellowship will have been damaged by the earthly touch. We need the spiritual foot wash ing to cleanse us from the earthly touch and to keep our spiritual fellowship in a good condi tion. Then it is possible to realize the church life. If the church life is to be kept fresh, new, pleasant, and living, we continually need this foot washing. Every local church needs this. In the matter of fellowship there must be no frus tration among the saints. Every church needs to pray for this.
The Lord came to bring God into us and He went to bring us into God. Now there is the real mingling of the divine Spirit with our human spirit. Humanity is mingled with divinity, and divinity is mingled with humanity. This is the church, the Body of Christ. In their spirit, the Christians are heavenly, eternal, and spiritual (1 Cor. 6:17), but in their physical body they are still on this earth and in the old creation.