Come to the Table: Revisioning the Lord's Supper (Biblia.com)

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Christian practice of the Lord's Supper is radically dissimilar from the the silent, solemn, individualistic eating of bread crumbs and drinking sips of wine that many churches practice today. Instead, says Hicks, our practice of the supper should be a joyous communal meal as it was in earliest Christianity. The contemporary practice of the suppers needs to be revisioned according to biblical...

without the Word is subject to misunderstanding and vacuous. But the Word without the table misses the experience of the living Christ as host. The two belong together. Further, just as the narrative moves from the non-recognition of Jesus to the recognition of Jesus at the table, so the church recognizes Jesus at the table. Jesus is revealed in the context of table. The table is the living presence of Christ. It is a moment when God’s presence in Jesus is experienced and made known. At the table we

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