Today has a strange name.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.

In the church calendar, the Thursday before Easter, is called Mondi Thursday.

It's set aside to remember the last supper, Jesus shared with his disciples.

The word Mandy comes from the Latin word for command.

At this supper, Jesus commanded his disciples to love and to serve one another.

And then he demonstrated what he meant by washing their feet.

And let's not forget this.

This was the supper remembering Passover,

when the Jews remembered God rescuing his people from Egypt as described in Exodus.

At this supper, Jesus revealed himself as the fulfillment of that event.

It's his broken body and his shed blood that we are to remember. So is Christianity

service or salvation? This divided the church in much of the 20th century and still does today.

But the truth is, it's both. On the same night, Jesus commands us to remember that we need rescue

by his broken body and spilled blood and to also show that we have been rescued by loving

and serving each other. I'm John Stone Street.