The "He Gets Us" Super Bowl ad has kicked off quite the debate within Christian circles. Feet washing is rarely practiced within churches, so who's feet exactly should we be washing? Would enjoy hearing your respectful insights below.

I was so surprised to see ANY commercial about Jesus Christ!! I was so touched and happy to see that there were a couple of adds about him whom we ALL need to turn to, to find peace and true happiness. We ARE supposed to love and serve others. This is what he taught. ❤ Great video. I’m glad you made this video to highlight the importance of Jesus Christ in all of our lives. Thank you

I think the message by itself is fine but you have to ask yourself why a minority was never depicted washing the feet of someone wearing a MAGA hat or why an abortionist was not shown washing the feet of a pro-life advocate. It was all one sided which raises red flags.

When my husband was a zone leader in his mission he felt prompted to do this with the other elders. He said it was very humbling for him and reminded him and the elders that leaders are to be servants not dictators.

Love you, David. You truly understand what Jesus came to teach us. You hear with your ears and see with your eyes, and practice what He preached. May our Father in Heaven pour down his richest blessings upon you and upon those whom you love.

Andy Reid, coach of KC chiefs is LDS. Food for thought as to his reaction.😊

Did you get booties placed on your shoes before the LDS temple open houses? Not quite the same but still symbolic of someone bending down and making your feet clean.

Service done in secret is rewarded openly and greatly by the lord. Jesus washing the feet has nothing to do with repentance or forgiveness. It was simply the lord showing his honor to his disciples for their service. When we do any service without expecting reward, we are washing their feet. To do this so the world can see does nothing. The lord said "if you do it for the glory of the world, you have your reward". You are a good example for the lords description of service. Everytime you express your testimony of gods glory, you enhance others lives. That is the purpose of service 😊

Thank you for your kindness and your positivity. You are truly a disciple of Christ. Thank you for sharing these thoughts.

Find an Episcopal Church on Maundy Thursday. Many Episcopal Churches observe foot-washing on that day.

Jesus Christ taught to us to love one another! Our Heavenly Father loves us, all of us are children of God! I could of got my feet washed before but did not take up the offer I thought it was kinda weird! Thank you for what you do and not putting down The Church of Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ!

In the Catholic Church, foot washing is done on the Holy Thursday/Maundy Thursday.

Check out a Catholic Holy Thursday service, the priest washes the feet of 12 parishioners.

I agree with you. I have a couple added thoughts. I first learned this after having hurt my back and needing surgery, while having a 2 and 1 year old at home. I was completely bed ridden for 2 weeks while I waited for surgery. My neighbors and ward showed up in full force. Cleaning my house, playing with my kids, wrapping Christmas presents, bringing dinners, you name it. It was REALLY hard for me to accept help. I am always the one that wants to help others but feels like I should do it all on my own. I remember laying there, bawling, feeling so helpless and worthless…when the image of the Savior washing the disciples feet came to my mind. With the thought, “there is more to this story.” I knew this story. Always saw it as what the Lord was doing for the disciples… which obviously that’s a huge part of the lesson. But what about how humbling this was for the disciples? How hard it was for them to let their pride down and just accept what Christ wanted to do for them? And in turn, allowing Christ to teach to the world service. Forgiveness. The depths he will go to help us. To clean us. The Spirit taught me that it can actually be harder to accept help than to provide it. To provide help we are awarded with a sense of worth. To accept help, we sometimes have to see that we cannot help ourselves. It’s not a good feeling. But once we do…the burden is so much lighter! So to me the images are just as much about all these different people accepting Christ as it is about Christ loving us all equallly.

Interesting thoughts. The worth of every soul is great in the sight of God.

The ONLY image in that ad which depicts both participants as equally valuing the other is the one where the two men are sharing the foot bath. (like Mr. Rogers and his guest) As an Acupuncturist and TCM practioner of Reflexology I fully comprehend the emotional/spiritual components of washing and annointing another's feet. Even if there is renumeration involved, the act remains an exchange of spiritual (or energetic) significance. As for the religious tradition of Foot Washing... ask your LDS friends where and whom still participate in that sacred ceremony.

In the Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), foot washing services are usually held quarterly. However, only baptized members participate. An annual evening foot washing service is held on Maundy Thursday (Thursday before Easter) at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Kansas City, MO. In this service, anyone in attendance may wash the feet of anyone else in attendance. Maybe I’ll see you there!

Yeah, I'm not washing anyone's feet. Gross. They can wash their own feet. I'll gladly change the oil on their car instead.

In our little fellowship of churches whenever its time for an ordination the Elder Minister wahes the feet of the Minister being ordained. Retead John 13. What is Jesus doing to His 12 Disciples.....He is essentially Ordaining them into their new ministry position..... The advertisement at the Super Bowl, I thought was wonderful.....why???? Somply, as a Christian, we all need to wash the feet of those around us....in other words see needs and meet them. One if our ministers, saw a need in her own extended family. Grandma Ellie was not doing well and the Minister ended up staying with Ellie until her death. That is being the example of a Servant of Jesus. This is the example of being a Christian. Perhaps, we should all be washing feet.....yes!!! Sister Monique 🙂🙏🌷💖

I think it goes to show that we need to be paying attention to our own beams and not moats we have to remember there was only one perfect person who could have cast a stone and He chose to give her mercy and counsel to sin no more. Everyone needs to put down their rocks and like you did see the good in the people of the world who love Jesus. We can let people of other denominations call us to repentance we don’t have to agree with every point to come together in Christ

Wisdom is known by her children.. we've seen the results of decriminalization of drugs and crime in our communities , which by the way was supposed to be an expression of love and compassion.. will the justification of immorality through love and compassion yield the same results or truly be beneficial to bringing about Christ's purposes in this world? The answer to this will prove whether the love is Christ like or not..

I totally agree with you David! I found this commercial to be so humbling and reminded me to be my brother’s keeper and love my neighbor! It easily could’ve been an LDS commercial!

We have been asked by a prophet of God to be peacemakers. I think it’s always good to have the reminder to love and serve everyone (what I’m interpreting the washing feet to mean). I can see the point about the ideological directions this could go that would bring in false doctrine, but i didn’t think they took it there in the commercial so in my opinion those concerns aren’t relevant for this.

This ad troubled me. It gives the impression that Christian conservatives should be bowing down to everyone else. Christ washed the feet of his apostles, people who were striving to follow him, or at least pretending to in the case of Judas. He didn’t wash the feet of Caesar, or the feet of the scribes and Pharisees.

I guess my question is how do you interpret the abortion clinic slide? Because that is hard no for me, associating Jesus with a pro abortion message

Good perspective. I am not sure why everything has to be so controversial...

Is it "hate" to call people out? Certainly it can be done in a hateful way, which is wrong. But a true friend will tell you when you're fly is down. Just because we point out someone's error doesn't mean we hate them. In fact that would be the loving thing to do. But it must be done in a loving way. As for Judas, if given the opportunity would Jesus have washed the feet of all those pharisees he condemned? I don't know, perhaps, but perhaps not.

Pure propaganda, the ad wants us to ignore all the other teachings of the bible whilst bowing to the philosophies of Men. We are to wash the feet of other believers and righteous Christians who try to follow the path of Christ. He never commanded the apostles to bow down and wash the feet of evil.

I agree. We do know that the Savior said that people would persecute His followers. I see this today with famous people who I otherwise like (for example, Kirk Cameron) but they make sure to tell Christians to beware of “Mormonism.”

My understanding is that Christ washed the feet of His Apostles (except for Judas, who had left the upper room). He washed the feet of those that He had chosen, who had both followed Him and preached His name abroad, and who had stuck with him through difficult times. I’ve been told that this may have been an Ordinance, only performed on Apostles of the Lord. We have no record of Christ washing the feet of those who opposed Him, as the ad portrays. I can understand the sentiment, of being willing to humble ourselves and serve those we may not normally think to, but the ad is a miss for me.

I loved the commercial. Washing someones feet is such a sincere act of love towards a person. We are not washing the sins, we are washing the person. If we truly love people and dislike their sins, I see no better demonstrating of that sentiment. We surround the person with humble love. We clean them, comfort them, embrace them, truly do anything for them to help them feel better. Then maybe they will trust us enough to listen when we encourage them to follow Christ. But even if they don't, our job is to love the them anyway. I know I felt the spirit when watching this ad and I do think it will bring goodness to the world

Who Is Feet Should We Be Washing? ?????

In the New Testament and early days of the Restored Church, many things were done that we don’t do or is not publicly done or announced. This includes wiping the dust off one’s feet as a curse. In the temple ceremony, from and based on the Old Testament, we do things involving anointing and washing. But we don’t talk about these things. Because the temple is sacred, we treat it with respect and although it isn’t secret, we don’t focus on one body part. The whole body plays its part in how Jesus teaches, so we need to remember we are all part of the body of Christ, and every part of the physical body plays a role, just as every calling is equal and not a step up or down. This applies to being positive and negative. Missionaries no longer wipe their feet as a warning or curse against rejection of the Gospel. So the need to respect everyone and their agency and the entire body as sacred or part of the Church in terms of cleaning per how Jesus teaches means no one or body part gets special treatment. But the temple ceremony doesn’t include the feet in being touched. They are covered for it, unlike the head or face. It would be inappropriate to touch every body part on someone to mention why it is important. So they limit it. The initiatory is done as a reminder of how important the priesthood is, regardless of men holding it. Women don’t hold it but use the authority of it in their calling. Hope this makes sense.

We should hate the sin but love the sinner.... not as easy as it sounds because we humans find it very hard to separate the two! The SDA Church practices foot washing as part of its quarterly communion service.

We shall no idolize a man thats what it says in the Bible!

Something that impressed me was a scene from the movie "The Jesus Revolution", which came out last year. The pastor of this church in Southern California decided to invite hippies into his church because they needed Jesus as much as anyone. The congregation wasn't hot on it and some of the leading elders of the church complained that these people were coming in with dirty, bare feet and getting the carpet dirty. The pastor's solution? He personally washed the feet of each of them before they came into the church.

Hm. Latter-day Saints are probably the only ones you won't see casually discuss this subject and you won't see them doing this as just an act of kindness. There's a reason Jesus did this for his Apostles, and his Apostles alone, there is no other recording act of him doing this for others. To go with that, I'm usually disturbed to hear people refer to the twelve of Jesus' day as the Disciples. Yes, they were disciples of Jesus Christ, in every sense of the word, but Jesus very ritualistically and by a specific process demonstrated by Moses to Aaron, set apart and called these twelve disciples to then be Apostles, they're not your average follower, or disciple of Jesus Christ, they're Apostles who are special witnesses of Jesus Christ. Whatever the custom of the Jews in that time, perhaps was an ordinance in the Jewish tabernacle, which sanctity had become cheapened and perverted over time, as Satan loves to do to try and further spite God (we learn his goal is following his loss during the Great Council and War in the Pre-Existence) Jesus accepted this personally, by the woman who came before him that Judas, himself, scoffed at in an attempt to cheapen the act before the Savior and Great High Priest, Jesus then performed this for his Apostles restoring its sanctity and significance, its sacred nature and purpose. While it may be a kind act, Latter-day Saints do take it seriously as it's a sacred ordinance with a specific purpose with symbology that God uses to communicate a very specific message. Just as one wouldn't defile a church building, burn scripture, chainsaw down a cross, or anything like to it for fear and out of respect of offending God, this is very much like unto it. Jesus wasn't suggesting that people do, necessarily, as he did in that moment, but his message that he taught: Let he who is greatest among you, be your servant. Jesus was greater than them all, but knelt down to wash the dirt off of the feet of those he served and they would serve him. The washing of feet also isn't used to gain attention, or recognition as God never instructs anyone to do for to show, but is done as he did, quietly behind closed doors. "let not men see your actions, but do them privately". It's never for bragging rights or to look important, this was a sacred act, a sacred ordinance with a very sacred purpose. When was the last time you walked by a church to find a person tied to a cross out front? You wouldn't because it was a sacred act for a sacred purpose in that moment, so much so, that when Peter was condemned to die, it's believed he refused to die the same way as the lamb slaughtered before him, he wasn't going to cheapen or take away the sacred purpose of that, because he had not the authority given him from God himself to do so

I thought the mrssage was alright... but feet are nasty, so i didn't like the commercial

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