Featured Washing Feet

Ordinance or not it seems that the commands of Jesus Christ are very clear!

John 13:13-17
13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

Incidentally, just who decides whether something is an ordinance or not. The Lords Supper is only mentioned twice outside the Gospels!

 

Brothers...its much mo than just washing feet.....its. cleaning up puke, and cleaning up poop and urine and blood ....and giving another your coat and driving someone to the VA psycho ward..... drying a tear soothing a child's fears......yes oh yes....much much mo.

 

100%

If we get hung up on the "thing" of washing feet, we're just likely to miss a hundred other things which stem from the same example.

 

I agree!... But that being said I will leave this discussion to others but post a comment made by PreachTony who started the OP!

I find the foot-washing service to be one of the most humbling, Spirit-filled services of the year. I also find that those who rarely, if ever, partake in it, tend to either marginalize it, or downright mock it... Brother Glen

 

Would you like to wash my feet and trim my toe nails?

 

I don't mock it brother......Christ indicated we are to do it and that's good enough. :thumbs:

 

OK.....now you want a pedicure. What color nail polish you lookie for?:laugh:

 

LOL good one, I will laugh with you.

 

I have observed foot washing during an Old Regular Baptist Communion service. I was not eligible to take part but simply watching that service was a wonderful spiritual experience. But you know people mocked Jesus Christ while HE was on the Cross.

 

Why were you not eligible?

Were you found sinning?
Were you deemed unworthy to perform a command of the Lord because of something you did?

Who cast this judgment of ineligibility?
Who is the one that hindered you from being obedient?

Last question....do you think I've asked legitimate questions?

 

I said I was through and was stepping away but then you insulted my Lord and Master so I felt I needed to set things straight.

Do you think He was a sinner?... He was our substitute!... The iniquity of us all was laid upon him... It pleased the Father to bruise him and by his stripes we are healed... Go to the cross!

Now to the woman... Ask any minister on here and you may be one yourself who does the woman represent in scripture?... Obedient and disobedient children of God!... This illustration is used throughout the scriptures both in the OT and NT.

So who is the woman sinner that is washing his feet with her tears and drying them with the hair of her head?... She represents the church that Jesus Christ purchased with his own blood!... He is the only one that could walk the walk and talk the talk!... And every time I'm am washing my brothers feet I never lose sight of that fact!... "WHO IS WORTHY"... None other than Jesus Christ the righteous that left heaven and came down to this sin cursed earth to die on a cross for a sinner like me!... So you see washing brethren feet is not a menial task of humility for me or of others who partake in this beautiful ceremony... Now you know!... Brother Glen

 

That's it in a nutshell. I've never felt the Spirit as much as at communion time when the Saints wash each other's feet. It is indeed a very humbling experience.

I've had the governor of KY wash my feet, and I his.

 

Goodie could I get mine washed?

 

Robert, it's unbecoming of you to make fun of it.

 

Do y'all pre-wash your feet before the big service? Or Ped-Egg?

 

Well, it IS a 'joke' among us 'feet washers; "I don't know why we wash each other's feet because everyone washes their feet beforehand anyways!"

 

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:laugh: Just kidding around, if I experienced it I'm sure that I would consider it to be a wonderful humble act or service.

What is unbecoming is bearing false witness against a brother.

 

OK. Is this directed at me?

 

It would serve a greater purpose if they were smelly. LOL :laugh:

 

Yes. in love.