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...

about “restoring patterns” or ecclesiological structures. On the contrary, this is about retrieving the original intent and meaning of the supper itself. What was originally “table fellowship” along the trajectory of Old Testament fellowship meals, Jesus’ meals with people, and the future messianic banquet became an individualistic altar. To restore the table is not about restoring a mandated form according to some blueprint. To restore the table is to restore the divine intent and function of the Lord’s

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