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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...

Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also? But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.” Jesus doesn’t wash before the meal. It’s a provocative act. It’s the cultural equivalent of refusing a handshake. Then, before anything else is said, Jesus says, “You’re full of greed, you fools.” That’s rude in
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