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A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table is unavailable, but you can change that!

Meals have always been important across societies and cultures, a time for friends and families to come together. An important part of relationships, meals are vital to our social health. Author Tim Chester sums it up: "Food connects."  Chester argues that meals are also deeply theological—an important part of Christian fellowship and mission. He observes that the book of Luke is full of stories...

question. “Doing lunch was doing theology.”7 Jesus doesn’t so much provide a new answer to the question as completely undermine its premise. He renders the question irrelevant. Inclusion was the issue at another meal Jesus attended. Luke 11:37–41 While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table. The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner. And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and
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