John 15:15 NIV
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
A boss and employee relationship is the most unintimate relationship. Why? Everything must be professional, no emotions, and no attachment. Yet, in this verse there is a big change.
Reverence
"I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's buisness..."
A boss and employee relationship is the most unintimate relationship. Your boss doesn't care about your family, or how you commute everyday, and how you eat your tuna sandwich. Morely in a servant and master relationship. That is why servants have great reverence to their master.
Grace
"Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you."
Imagine your boss going to your office and began asking about your family and the stuff. It's quite awkward right? That is the same situation that the disciples experienced with Jesus. Jesus washes their feet, visit their homes, and healed a disciple's mom. Imagine that close to a God?
"God has called us as His friends yet we were His servants. This orchestrates God's grace (by calling us friends) and our reverence (because we were still His servant but now called as friends) because you are faced with the most powerful God."
