Mike,
    At the last supper Christ said ‘as often as you do this, do it in rememberance of me.’  I believe that every time (as often as) we eat anything or every time (as often as) we drink we are to remember Christ.  This is not something that is reserved for a formal ritual at a church service, but a part of everyday life.

Hi J____,

You are right, Jesus was not replacing one outward ritual with another outward ritual. What Christ did when He washed His disciples feet was done to demonstrate what is a true servant.

Unlike today’s ‘foot washings’ of other people’s clean feet, Christ’s disciples wore sandals in streets filled with beasts of burden.  Christ asks His disciples if they understood what He is doing?

Joh 13:12  So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
Joh 13:13  Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
Joh 13:14  If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet ; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
Joh 13:15  For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Joh 13:16  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
Joh 13:17  If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

What Christ was doing was the job of a very low ranking servant, and He did it gladly as an example for us, not as a ritual for us. “I your Lord and Master have washed you feet” is not speaking of washing feet as a ritual. Christ was speaking of being a servant minister. He is speaking of His elect who will “judge this world,” being the servants of others to whom they will witness with their life style and with their actions of service. His whole point was that His elect will always be serving one another. And since God’s elect have been His elect from “before the world began,” it is incumbent upon us all to regard all, even those who persecute the church, as brothers who are potentially God’s elect:

Gal 6:10  As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

“Especially” but not exclusively “unto them who are of the household of faith.”
You are so right. Christ eschews outward rituals. What He is working through is not empty rituals but the hearts and minds of those in whom He dwells.
Mike>