Table Talk: Rethinking Communion and Community

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For nearly two thousand years followers of Jesus have gathered in churches to eat a meal called Communion in his memory. In Table Talk, Mike Graves claims if we could shuttle back to those earliest Christian gatherings, we would realize we aren’t just two thousand years removed; we are light-years removed from how they ate when gathered because eating was why they gathered in the first place, one of those first-century dinner party. Four characteristics of their Communion practices would leap out at us, traits that are scattered all the way through the New Testament, but that regularly go unnoticed: how the meal was a part of a full evening together, promoting intimacy; how it was a mostly inclusive affair, everyone welcome at the table; how it was usually festive, more like a dinner party; and how afterwards they enjoyed a full of life conversation on a host of topics. But Table Talk explores more than just Communion practices, because a new way of doing church is happening world wide, gatherings more horizontal than vertical. For two thousand years Christians have oriented themselves toward God in the presence of others; now progressively more congregations, a part of the dinner church movement, are orienting themselves toward each other in the presence of God. This book tells their story and helps us rethink our own.

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