The eschatological horizon reminds us that the root metaphor of the Eucharist is neither tomb nor altar, but table. In some ways that sentence is sort of the thesis of my book Come to the Table. However, one dimension of the book that I wish I had emphasized more–and it is present in the book, […]
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I thought I might share something of what I shared with the churches in Hawaii. Unity is ultimately rooted in God’s act for us in Christ. God creates the unity by his own act and we live it out in our concrete situations. Unity is grounded in the divine initative and manifested through divine gifts. […]
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While doing some reading in Stone-Campbell literature for a paper I’m preparing, I ran into this comment from Carl Ketcherside. “The Lord’s Supper is a feast, not a sacrifice; it is observed at a table, not an altar; it is eaten, not offered up; it is a communion of a congregation of priests, not an […]
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I had the joy of sharing one of my favorite texts with the Wisdom class at Woodmont Hills this morning. I love Isaiah 25. It excites me everytime I read it…and for several reasons. While Isaiah 13-24 rehearses God’s “woes” toward all nations due to their arrogance, injustice and evil, Isaiah 25 (actually beginning with […]
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