A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the… (utgåvan 2011)

Mealtime is a big deal for Jesus, and who we eat with matters a whole lot. I discuss the book on the Jesus in Books podcast: https://soundcloud.com/jesusinbooks/meaning-of-mealtime ( )

An excellent look at our contemporary understanding of hospitality, looking at a number of the meals Jesus shared in Luke's gospel. One of the recommended books at Spring Harvest 2012 ( )

http://www.wordandspirit.co.uk/blog/2012/01/10/book-reviewa-meal-with-jesus-tim-... ( )

A Meal with Jesus, Tim Chester, Crossway, 201, 143 pages.
In his book, “A Meal with Jesus”, Tim Chester weaves a fantastic book cover a specific, yet wide ranging book that looks at the meals that the Gospel of Luke records that Jesus was part of. At first when I ordered this book I thought it would center in on the Communion meal of the Last Supper. Boy and I happy that I was wrong.

Chester works through six different meals that Jesus had and unpacks a variety of topics for the reader to ponder. Things like grace, community, hope, mission, salvation and promise and how the meal is a spring board into each of them, and also a fantastic vehicle to share them with the world.

In the book Chester also challenges the reader on things with questions on the way we use food, view food, the selection of the people at our tables (or not at our tables) and the use of meals in the context of ministry. This was great read, not a hard one, or a long one, but a book that challenged me afresh in every chapter!

Highly Recommend this book, it will challenge the way you think about, view and ultimately how you enjoy food and the people around the table at which you sit! ( )