Sabbath Breakers Club Ordinance of Humility
Relax! I've read here numerous harrowing stories about communion Sabbaths and especially this foot washing rite. I certainly didn't conduct scholarly research, but a quick search-engine review of "ordinance of humility" pulled up a solid set of web resources apparently all centering SDA practices. So it's a cult phrase that might puzzle non-SDAs.
Ellen White used the phrase repeatedly, but I haven't been able to find out if she coined it. How it originated would be for me a fascinating history.
Because, though reared SDA, I was never baptized and my understanding was that participating was only for those baptized, I did it only once. That time I didn't calculate my exit and let myself be swept into the crowd. So I consider myself lucky that my taking to heart the rules and mostly following them protected me.
Those who maintain Christian belief but left Adventism, many Christian faiths practice versions of foot washing, but I'm pretty sure that if they aren't SDA spinoffs, you won't hear them call it the ordinance of humility. I'm curious if anyone's been to one of these. As part of Easter Week, Catholic and closer to Catholic churches have what they call Maundy Thursday.
So, everyone, relieved of "sabbath" obligations, let's celebrate the choices we make this weekend!
Having participated in Sabbath Breakers Club meetings for years now, I'm convinced that many r/exAdventist readers appreciate when new hosts step up to invite us infidels to the club, and I'm glad for that. Hosting, I believe, is quite simple, and our fine-print guidelines spell it out. Hope to see you here with a fresh take some week soon!
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Sabbath Breakers Club belongs to members of r/exAdventist on reddit. These guidelines are intended to suggest how anyone with posting privilege in this sub may start a week's Sabbath Breakers Club thread, not to control such postings.
• Keep it timely. If it's SDA-defined Sabbath somewhere on earth and no one has already started a Sabbath Breakers Club thread, you're clear to start one.
• Start Sabbath Breakers Club threads with that phrase "Sabbath Breakers Club." The reason for this is to make it easy to tell if no Sabbath Breakers Club thread has been posted for the present week. Just search "Sabbath Breakers Club" in r/exAdventist.
• You're welcome to use the image that looks like from an old woodcut of Moses smashing tables of stone with the Israelite throng celebrating their golden calf in the background, but you're not required to. Different ideas to launch the thread may invite still more, and more diverse, participation.
• Remember we're here to ease the church's attempts to control using Sabbath rules and guilt trips. Non-humiliating humor and empathy in your invitation can help set the tone, and enjoy exercising some spontaneous leadership in starting a Sabbath Breakers Club thread.
• Pass it on. Cutting and pasting this "fine print" can help future Sabbath Breakers Club hosts self-identify and feel empowered to step up and shine.