On an Equal Playing Field

John 4:7-15 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" ( For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock." Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

What I see here is a great example of how we should approach others as Christians. We have all heard the phrase "holier than though". We are not that. Each of us are at different stages in our walk with God. It is important to not assume that our relationship with him is stronger or that it makes us better people.
What Jesus did in approaching this Samaritan woman is make himself in need too. He asked her for water before telling her of the "living water".
We should do the same.
Let's ask for prayer not just from those that seem to be doing well in their walk with God, but from the ones in the back row at church, sometimes not coming at all. Let's pray for those that are doing better than us even when we perceive that they have it all.
Let us serve the needy with humility, not putting ourselves above them. Thank you Jesus that you have not ranked and categorized us the way we at times do each other.