And it's more than mere words and knowledge that disciples give each other. Disciples give themselves to others. Disciples serve each other by listening, supporting, encouraging, affirming, confronting, helping, loving, empathizing, and being there. Disciples are generous with their time and energy, imitating the One who knew how to serve. As servants, disciples learn how to be sensitive, to know when they are needed and when they are not needed.
True servants can read people well.
They can feel pain in others and know when to step in and help. Every month Daryl's youth group went to Beverly Manor to conduct a church service for the elderly. Daryl didn't like to go, but he felt obligated. That's what Jesus would do , Daryl thought, even though Jesus didn't have old-folks homes in his day. Oliver was in his eighties or nineties, seldom spoke, and usually slept through the church service.