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Salvation is a meal. Salvation is sitting at the table of the Lord, with the risen Christ as our host. But if salvation is a meal – and if this meal is marked by God’s own koinonia – and if there is more than enough to go around – and if our host is himself the one who ate with tax collectors, prostitutes and sinners – what else is there to do but to go out and invite others to this extra-ordinary meal! -Brad East
Eugene Peterson, skrywer van The Message vertaling van die Bybel, skryf in sy boek Living the Resurrection oor Resurrection Meals:
The common meal is probably the primary way by which we take care of our physical need for food and our social need for conversation and intimacy and our cultural need to carry on traditions and convey values. The meal – preparation, serving, eating, cleaning up – has always been a microcosm of the intricate realities that combine to make up even the simplest life of men, women and children. Because it is so inclusive (anyone and everyone is included in the meal) and because it is so comprehensive (taking in the entire range of our existence – physical, social, cultural), the meal provides an endless supply of metaphors for virtually everything we do as human beings. These metaphors nearly always suggest something deeply personal and communal – giving and receiving, knowing and being know (“taste and see that the Lord is good”), accepting and being accepted, bounty and generosity (“land flowing with milk and honey”).
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