[DouglasKC]

I thought you guys might be interested in an update to this. Last night I participated in my first Passover service with my fellow church members.

The pastor started by reading the appropriate verses in the New Testament that describe the events of the last supper. Everyone had brought a small wash basin and towel with them and we split up into two groups, male and female. The males went to one section of the building and the females to another. We filled our basin s with (warm) water and then split into pairs and washed each others feet, a practice that Christ instructs all his disciples to perform on each other:

Joh 13:14 If then I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
Joh 13:15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

I have to say that this is a very humbling, but holy experience. One can't be proudful or arrogant and do this...which of course was probably part of the intent.

After this we returned to the pews. One of the elders took a piece of unleavened bread and broke it into small pieces, thus equating it with the broken and battered body of Christ on the cross.

Luke 22:19 And He took bread and gave thanks, and He broke it and gave it to them, saying, This is My body which is given for you, this do in remembrance of Me.

The piece of bread were then passed among the congregation and we each ate a small piece.

Next tiny glasses of wine were passed out to the congregation. We each drank, remembering the words of Christ:

1Co 11:25 In the same way He took the cup also, after supping, saying, "This cup is the New Covenant in My blood; as often as you drink it, do this in remembrance of Me."

All in all it was very moving experience that I wished to share with you all.

[homeschool mama]

I agree with you...experiencing this kind of service is *very* moving. I look forward to my next Messianic Passover. :o)

[L,TOWM]

The washing of feet is pretty humbling for both the washer and the washee. I am blessed to be a small group leader at my church; my wife and I will usually wash the feet of our "sheep" annually. It is a great way to remind yourself of the Servant Leader model exemplified by Jesus.

[vmatt]

All in all it was very moving experience that I wished to share with you all.

I know you mean well but these are not things we who would come two thousand years later were instructed to follow but customs of their time just as greeting one another with a holy kiss. If you feel strongly about this, would you be kind enough to provide proof that this is what God would have us do today?

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

[JohnnyM]

"The pastor started by reading the appropriate verses in the New Testament that describe the events of the last supper. Everyone had brought a small wash basin and towel with them and we split up into two groups, male and female. The males went to one section of the building and the females to another. We filled our basin s with (warm) water and then split into pairs and washed each others feet, a practice that Christ instructs all his disciples to perform on each other:"

Don't you understand the signifigance of the washing of the feet at the Last Supper dealt with the Spiritual aspect of our lives.

Listen to the words of Christ when He is performing this act:

John 13:6-10
6 He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?"
7 Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand."
8 Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part in me."
9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!"
10 Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you."

Clearly, Christ is speaking of their spiritual cleanliness. He said they are all clean, but one, and that one was Judas. The dirty feet represented the dirt and stain of the world on their Spiritual lives. As Christians, as we go out into the world, we get dirty with the sin and garbage of the world and we need to be washed by our fellow brothers and sisters. Christ is showing us through this humble act of washing His disciples feet, how we as Christians should uplift and wash the spiritual feet of our brethern when they have the stink and dirt of the world on them. There have been countless times where I have had the dirt of the world on me and I felt down or yucky and a brother or sister has lifted me up through song, through a good word, or through worship and my spirits were lifted. If you only see this act as a literal washing of the feet, you fail to grasp the true signifigance of it.

JM