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Washing The Homeless Feet
I just flew back home tonight from a business trip to Texas that included stops in both Austin and Ft. Worth.
I finally got to meet an esteemed AFFer who lives in the Dallas area and that meeting will be a thread in itself later this week when things calm down.
This morning I was able to zip across town and go to Randy Phillips Promise Land West second service (they have a 9 am and 11 am service on Sunday).
It was my first time visiting PLW as I normally go to the original Promise Land Church pastored by his dad Kenneth Phillips when I am in town.
During the annoucements they talked about something their youth department did with about 50 young people (teenagers I believe) about a week ago.
This was an all night event with the group first gathering for some fun and fellowship followed by a 3 am breakfast at IHOP.
They then headed to a place that deals with the homeless and served them breakfast, coffee etc.
More than that though they had a footwashing service and those young people washed the feet of those homeless men and woman.
They showed slides on the screen of them doing that and it was incredibly moving.
I think that was a wonderful lesson to teach those young folks in humility and serving others.
Especially since this church is in the more affluent part of town so I imagine most of those kids have had no exposure to those at the bottom of the socio economic scale.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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