by Michael Card.  Song about community, the meaning of ministry based on the gospel image of Jesus washing the disciples feet at the Last Supper.

And the call is to community

In an upstairs room, a parable
Is just about to come alive
And while they bicker about who's best
With a painful glance, He'll silently rise

Their Saviour Servant must show them how
Through the will of the water
And the tenderness of the towel

And the call is to community
The impoverished power that sets the soul free
In humility, to take the vow
That day after day we must take up the basin and the towel

In any ordinary place
On any ordinary day
The parable can live again
When one will kneel and one will yield

Our Saviour Servant must show us how
Through the will of the water 

And the tenderness of the towel 

The space between ourselves sometimes 

Is more than the distance between the stars 

By the fragile bridge of the Servant's bow 

We take up the basin and the towel 

And the call is to community 

The impoverished power that sets the soul free 

In humility, to take the vow 

That day after day we must take up the basin 

And the call is to community 

The impoverished power that sets the soul free 

In humility, to take the vow 

That day after day we must take up the basin 

That day after day we must take up the basin 

That day after day we must take up the basin and the towel Take up the basin and the towel, basin and towel