우문현답? : 세족식

기도 중의 뜬금없는 우문 .
"예수님께서는 큰 교회 건물 내 가득한 사람들의 예배를 더 prefer 하세요? 아니면  향유옥합을 깨뜨려 예수님께 붓고 예수님의 발을 닦은 여인을 더 prefer 하세요?" 
왜 그런 질문이 떠올랐는지는 모르겠다.  예수님께서, audible 하게 들리도록 답하실리 만무하다. 그런 특별한 은사나 경험을 바라는 맘도 없다. 
어쩄거나 어림짐작으로 예수님의 답은 "case by case 이니라," 가 아닐지. 큰 교회 내 가득한 사람들이 어떤 사람들이냐에 따라서 달라지지 않을까 모르겠다.
 
예수님께서도 제자들의 발을 씻기지 않으셨는가?
백프로 신성을 가지시기도 하셨지만, 백프로 인간 예수이기도 하셨던 예수님께서 향유옥합 여인의 행위에서 inspire 받으신 건 아닐까?
예수님을 face-to-face 만날 때까지는 그 내막을 알 수 없는 일이다.
 
세족식에 대해서 찾아보니, 세족식을 maundy 라고 하고, 세족식이 열린 목요일을 Maundy Thursday 라고 한단다.  Maundy Thursday 라는 term 은 처음 들었다.  Maundy Thursday 에 일어난 일: (1) The Last Supper (2) The foot-washing fo the apostles (3) 겟세마네 동산 (4) The arrest of Jesus. 
 
세족식의 의미 by NT wright

The Music of New Creation: Holy Week Eucharist Reflections from N.T. Wright - N.T. Wright Online

The footwashing scene means what it means within this larger story. It is a small but cosmically significant piece of new-creational performance art, launching a new people marked out by humble, self-giving love. Jesus’ symbolic actions were small but powerful seeds, designed to grow and change the world. The very existence of this strange new family constitutes the standing rebuke, from creation’s true God, to the tyrants and bullies of the world.
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Jesus’ followers are therefore given this mandate, to be performance artists of new creation in a world caught between the ruin of the old and the birth of the new. ‘Love one another, as I have loved you’. That is the slogan: easy to say, massively challenging to do – not least because it is so easily misunderstood. Is Jesus saying that the answer to all our problems is simply a community of kindness?

No, but that’s not a bad start. The footwashing scene brings into unexpected focus the good news that the world’s tyrants and bullies are held to account and overthrown; that a different way to be human has been launched upon the world. The church, empowered by Jesus’ Spirit, must speak the truth to power, the
truth of God’s new creation. As we discover again this evening, the bread and the wine of the Eucharist proclaim powerfully to the wider world that in Jesus’ death and resurrection God himself has sat down defiantly at the keyboard, to play, even amidst the rubble, the unstoppable music of new creation.

 

The Royal Revolution: Fresh Perspectives on the Cross - NTWrightPage

Within the gospels’ recounting of that ultimate Passover, one scene stands out with special poignancy and power. John’s gospel displays deft artistry and fathomless theology throughout, but especially in the footwashing scene in chapter 13. In a few lines we glimpse a tableau both intimate and touching and scary and dangerous. Having begun his gospel with the all-creative Word becoming flesh and revealing God’s glory, John begins the shorter second half with an acted parable of the same thing. Jesus removes his outer garments and kneels down to wash the disciples’ feet, summing up all that is to come in this act of divine humility, of loving redemption, of cleansing for service. For John, as indeed throughout the New Testament, Jesus’ vocation to rescue the world from its plight, and in so doing to reveal the divine glory in action, is focused, symbolized, encoded in an action simultaneously dramatic, fraught with cosmic significance, and gentle, tender with human emotion. If you want to understand the great mysteries of Christian theology, of Trinity, Incarnation, and atonement itself, you could do worse than spend time with this scene.
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The theology of the cross is only ultimately complete when it issues in the footwashing, fruitbearing and world-transforming mission of Jesus’ followers.
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When Jesus wanted to explain to his followers what his death would mean he didn’t give them a theory, he gave them a meal on the one hand and a dramatic action on the other. The Word became flesh, and it is in flesh – his flesh, and then, worryingly, our flesh – that the truth is revealed. God forgive us that we have answered rationalistic scepticism with rationalistic fideism. The Word – the Logos, the ultimate Reason in Person – became flesh. It is in the flesh that the world was saved; it is in the flesh that the glory was, and is, revealed.

 
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