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Intro
Reflect on what we’ve been speaking on.
Whose my neighbor
How to love and serve my eighbbor
Why?
We live in a post-christian culture
People are more hostile to the faith
People are more disinterested
Apathy
Sunday isn’t considered a day where you dress the kids and attend church.
Now its if there isn’t a football game
A Childs sportig evet
A brunch with my gals or dudes.
Or Sunday is my day off.
In such a culture.. how do we show the relevance of the gospel??
More ans more, we see the methods of the past aren’t working a well.
Street evangelism
Large gatherings where you invite a dynamic speaker
Entertainment at church
Is there a way
A practice
An ancient resource
Of meeting people where they’re at.
Connecting
Valuing them
I believe there is and its somewhat simplistic
It involves a table and a meal.
We all are familiar with the universal appeal of food.
It’s a deep human instinct that we mark significant moments with significant meals.
Holidays
Gatherings
birthdays
Reunion
They bind us together
It shapes us
Binds us
The laughs and jokes stay with us
There is something disarming about a meal behind a table.
Discussing theology in Greece over a meal.
We believed different but food united us.
Discussing trinitarian theology over a meal is much more enjoyable.
Jesus
John talks about the word becoming flesh and moving into the neighborhood.
How would Jesus react, respond, reach people??
How would you act if you moved into a new neighborhood?
Lock yourself up so no-one knows if anyone moved in.
Invite people over but only your friends.
Now, out of all the ways that Jesus could reach out and connect… what do you think it would be the approach of God?
What was Jesus method for connecting with the marginalized, broken and outcast??
It was a meal and a table.
He's a drunkard and glutton.
At one point, people started to accuse him for excess partying.
He's a drunkard and glutton.
Now these were accusations.
We dont think that Jesus was either.
But nobody calls me a drunkard.. why, because I haven’t drank or been around places where people drink.
Glutton thats another story.
I live a few min from in-n- out.
First miracle — water to wine at a wedding feast.
Another miracle is feeding over 20000 people
Eating with …
• In Jesus eats with tax collectors and sinners at the home of Levi.
• In Jesus is anointed at the home of Simon the Pharisee during a meal.
• In Jesus feeds the five thousand.
• In Jesus eats in the home of Martha and Mary.
• In Jesus condemns the Pharisees and teachers of the law at a meal.
• In Jesus is at a meal when he urges people to invite the poor to their meals rather than their friends.
• In Jesus invites himself to dinner with Zacchaeus.
Chester, T. (2011).
A meal with jesus: discovering grace, community, and mission around the table.
Wheaton, IL: Crossway.
For instance, Robert Karris has identified as many as fifty-one passages in Luke’s gospel alone in which Jesus is linked with food.
He gives this memorable line that in Luke’s gospel, “Jesus is either going to a meal, at a meal, or coming from a meal”
Now many of you aren’t fazed by that.
Jesus enjoyed eating.
Great.
Its much more than that.
Table fellowship
Peter and Cornelius
thus social boundaries could be more or less defined in terms of inclusion or exclusion
-ethnicty
Economical
Purity
Gender
Cultural
Religious
To eat together created a special bond (cf.
), and whom you ate with, or whom you invited to eat with you, defined your place in society.
In a society where shame and honor were central motivating factors, this mattered.
Jesus’s willingness to eat with and to accept invitations from both the respectable and the disreputable, the influential and the marginalized, was one of his most striking traits
The distinctiveness of Jesus’ vision of the kingdom was nowhere clearer than in his protest against discriminatory meal practices.
Jesus and the Pharisees ate differently.
The son of man came eating and drinking.
Jesus method for connecting with outsiders and insiders.
"The Son OF Man came..."
1.
To Serve
2. To seek and save the Lost
3. Eating and Drinking
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1st two depict his mission and purpose.
The last one is the method and means.
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