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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...

ignore God’s Word, effectively siding with those who killed the prophets (Luke 11:47–51). They’d created a system that the poor could never keep, and then instead of helping them, despised them for their failures. Jesus concludes: “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering” (11:52). How might we do this today? Perhaps through sophisticated displays of exegesis or rhetoric that make the nonliterate feel that
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