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Lanham Church Featured in Washington Post

Mar 30, 2013

Friday’s Washington Post includes a story about communion at theGrace Brethren Chirch in Lanham, Md. A portion of the story appears below, Click here to read the complete story.

 Maryland church starts Easter week with Last Supper and foot-washing service

By , Published: March 29

In a season when Christians observe Easter by retelling the story of Jesus, the pastor ofGrace Brethren Church in Lanham used Palm Sunday to go beyond preaching about the Last Supper and the New Testament account of what took place before the crucifixion and resurrection.

On the Sunday before Easter, the men and women of the congregation split up and washed the feet of others to emulate what Jesus did on the night he was betrayed. Afterward the Rev. J. Paul Mutchler presided over a Passover feast that included the kinds of foods that Jesus and the disciples probably ate at the Last Supper.

“The washing of the feet is commanded in John 13,” Mutchler said. “He ended his teaching by washing feet as a symbol of being cleansed from our daily sins, in contrast to being cleansed for our eternal sins by his shed blood on the cross.”

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