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Lord's Supper & Foot Washing Service Observation
So, I visited a church last night that holds their Lord's Supper and Foot Washing Service on the Wednesday night before Easter every year. It's an Independent Pentecostal Church, Trinitarian, but very good people. If you didn't know, you would think you were in any very conservative Assembly of God or Church of God church.
So now you know the scene. There were probably about 400 people there, give or take a couple. The service was beautiful, some moving drama added in, awesome music. They did, as I was brought up, really push in the beginning Paul's admonishment to self examine and make sure you should take of the Lord's Supper before doing so unworthily. A time of invitation was offered, many came to the altar, was really moving.
Then we started the Lord's Supper. One of the reasons I always go, is they really do it respectfully, seriously, and deliberate. It's a special thing to them and anyone that attends. I would assume, from how many in my general area that took of the elements, that the majority of people took part in communion. When the pastor talked about the broken bread, you could hear the wafers crack like thunder, so I'd say almost everyone took part.
However, the second part of the service is dividing up, men and women, into the foot washing. For this church, they preach it's just as important.
Only maybe 100 people took part in that though.... there were even people who wanted to watch, but not take part.
So I left being somewhat confused. Almost 400 people want to take part in Christ's humility and servanthood to go to the cross for their sins.... but when it comes down to remembering our servanthood and humility to one another, only about 1/4 of those folks take part.
This just left me dumbfounded.
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