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Foot washing: an ordinance?

JonC

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I tbink it would be difficult- probably impossible, - for any believer to say there is something wrong with the ceremony of foot washing. Or even doing it twice (feet..... @kyredneck. ;) ).

So it can be an ordinance of local churchs or even implemented as part of the Supper. Nobody should fault a church history for doing so.

At the same time it is different from Baptism and Communion (the Supper).

It is not commanded to be observed.

Foot, foots, or feet washing was not a type of communion in Scripture.
It may be for us as it is foreign to our culture. It may bring, to us, feelings of closeness snd fellowship with one another (which is communion as we are the Body).

But in Scripture it was common practice, it was not a ceremony. Servants washed feet. But most did not have servants. Foot washing was a cultural norm. In Scripture Jesus washing the feet of the Disciples did not express the degree of humility that it may in our culture. It expressed serving.

A Christian should not condemned the practice, but neither should a Chriatian condemn those who do not observe the ceremony.
 
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