2007-04-23 13:09:47 · 9 answers · asked by House Speaker 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Foot washing had been practiced for hundreds of years before Jesus
washed the disciples feet in John 13.
2007-04-23 13:10:24 · update #1
Holy Thursday. Lent ends at the beginning of the Mass of the Lord's Supper. As we recall Jesus' last supper with His Apostles, we celebrate the Eucharist. We also wash feet. The sign of service found in John's Gospel is the washing of feet. Jesus says, "I have given you example. What I have done, you too must do." We need to leave this place with the strength of the Eucharist to take care of the simplest needs of those around us, as Jesus did.
2007-04-23 13:27:11 · answer #1 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm a Seventh Day Adventist and we practice the Ordinance of Humility (foot washing) separate from regular worship. The Ordinance is practiced on the Sabbath days when we have Communion. Communion and the Ordinance takes the place of the normal worship time. We don't actually take soap and water and really wash. It's merely rinsing of the feet and then drying and this is done the way it was done with Christ. One person washes the feet of another. Men and women are separated in different rooms. Children and teenagers who have been baptized take part in this too.
In the Adventist Church it is not mandatory to do this. This is usually done before Communion and of course we don't use wine. Grape juice suffices just fine.
2007-04-23 14:00:14 · answer #2 · answered by angelcat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A foot washing service can be a wonderful worship experience. Our Church does not teach it as mandatory and it is strictly voluntary to participate. Women and men are separated into two rooms apart from one another. When done in a spirit of worship to God and as an act of humility before Him, it is a very moving and beautiful service. People have been touched and able to release unforgiving attitudes and experience healing in these services. They are not done often. In the Church I attend, we have only had one of these services in the last seven years.
2007-04-23 14:25:10 · answer #3 · answered by wd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've seen foot washing done as part of a Mondy Thursday / Good Friday thing. The rituals I've seen have always been voluntary and entail the person washing the feet of the next person in line. Of course, the term 'wash' is relative.
2007-04-23 13:18:22 · answer #4 · answered by Zimmia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a former individuals of the international Church of God, we practiced the footwashing as quickly as each twelve months for the period of the hot testomony Passover service that honored the night of Christ's betrayal ( and for this reason His dying). The symbols of the bread and wine replaced the emblem of the Passover Lamb which Christ fulfilled. as quickly as we left the WCG over doctrinal subject concerns (they grew to become a typical protestant chruch, Sunday/ yuletide/ easter/, we disagreed), my spouse and that i persisted the footwashing as component of our annual Passover service for some years. Then i began out interpreting that distinctive component of Christ's final night along with his disciples greater heavily. We take the bread and the wine as symbols of the sacrifice Christ made for us, yet we now no longer do the footwashing. My own study have shown me that it exchange into executed as an occasion for us yet isn't component of the ordinance for the Passover service. a distinctive study will prepare you why Christ accomplished the footwashing and examining the bills in all the gospels approximately that night will prepare you that the disciples did no longer get His factor. the only "washing" ordinance that i'm certainly helpful is needed of Christians is baptism. I even have not prepared this study in any form of format or something, yet once you particularly desire to appreciate greater e mail me and that i will attempt to complex greater.
2016-10-13 07:51:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The washing of the feet isn't an act of worship, it's an act of service showing humility, and the fact that even a master has to do things for those whom they command.
2007-04-23 13:14:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
in Islam we wash our most exposed areas before we pray or go into the mosques...we was our hands, mouth, nose, face, hair, amrs, ears and our feet...
2007-04-23 13:15:38 · answer #7 · answered by baba where art thou 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we hold communion in church today but not footwashing, there is no reason for us to not hold to foot washing
2007-04-23 13:13:33 · answer #8 · answered by jcioos 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I don't want to touch anyone's skanky feet.
2007-04-23 13:12:37 · answer #9 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋