How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?
 

How often does your church offer communion?

Is it on a regular schedule or at random?

How often does your church have a footwashing service?

Does your personal belief regarding these two sacraments differ from your current church's practices?

Do some of your churches NOT have either communion or footwashing?

Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?
 

I thank the Lord we don't do footwashing.

Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?
 

Really???? Even my church that is considered "Bapticostal" does. It is part of the "Understanding God and His Covenants" class and then occasionally done at a special service for everybody.

Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?
 

It's random and not very often, not even yearly necessarily.

Communion and footwashing always go together.

Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?
 

Both are random or just the footwashing? I thought almost all OP churches held communion on a regular basis.

I think the 16 years I was at Kenneth Phillips church we did communion quarterly and footwashing about once a year.

The last 8 1/2 years at Christ Church we have communion one Sunday per month and footwashing in a class and then in a service once every year or two.

Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?
 

Bless you!

Being one who doesn't care for her feet, I am thankful I don't have to let someone wash them. It's not a matter of me not wanting to wash someone else's but rather the other way around... if they want to show me their servanthood.. they can bring me a glass of water in Jesus name. :)

Seriously.. our church has never had a footwashing service in many many years. I believe there was one when I was a pre-teen.. if I remember correctly. I remember leaving my pantyhose on.. and washing my friends feet and wondering if she ever bathed.

Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?
 

Both are random. My former pastor didn't do it often at all. I've had a communion & footwashing service twice in 6 1/2 years since I've been administrating it......

We always do communion AND footwashing together. Never have done just one or the other.

Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?
 

Jesus said "as oft as ye do this..." He left it up to personal discretion how often it is done. Personally I don't feel comfortable with setting a time and date as this "ritualizes" the practice. It should be as often as the Lord leads. If a set date is preferrable, I would think just before Easter.

Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?
 

randon - about 1 -2 times a year.

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I was at the Plaster Rock church for the communion and footwashing this past New Years. I had never been in a footwashing service before. The spirit moved through that church in a powerful way.
At my home church though, I don't think they do footwashing. Sometimes they do communion in people's homes ("house churches").

GOD BLESS!
Bro. Alex