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Originally Posted by Felicity
I'm not against footwashing and have no problem with people carrying out this "symbolic" occasional representation of servanthood.
However, I think there are much more valuable and "actual" ways of portraying servanthood in "real" life. Just be a servant.
Serve your pastor. Serve your pastor's wife. Serve your church and serve your brother and sister. Most of all, be a servant of Jesus Christ.
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I agree, though I'm totally suppoirtive of the act of washing one another's feet. But it isn't the ACT that is the focus here. It is the ATTITUDE that we should focus on The attitude of being a servant to one another, and, as the sister here is quoted, to the Lord Jesus Christ. It isn't the act of foot washing that makes a person humble... he or she is humble before the actual act. We are told by Paul to submit to one another and to prefer our brother (or sister) before us... the willingness to wash the feet of a brother (or sister) is the point that Jesus was making here. I think Sis Esther makes an excellent point.
Jesus said
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jhn 15:13 . This isn't to say we are required to die for a brother, but the WILLIGNESS to do so shows the love that Jesus wants us to have for one another. Am I ready to lay down my life for someone else? I don't know. But I am willing to wash the feet of a brother. Or my wife. In fact, I did that just today.