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Old 02-22-2008, 08:41 PM
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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?
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Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?

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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?
I thank the Lord we don't do footwashing.
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I thank the Lord we don't do footwashing.
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.
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Old 02-22-2008, 08:50 PM
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Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?

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

Communion and footwashing always go together.
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Old 02-22-2008, 08:53 PM
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It's random and not very often, not even yearly necessarily.

Communion and footwashing always go together.
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.
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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.
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.
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Both are random or just the footwashing? I thought almost all OP churches held communion on a regular basis.
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.
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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.
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randon - about 1 -2 times a year.
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Re: How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?

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").

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