Broken Bread: How to Stop Using Food and Fear to Fill Spiritual Hunger

Written by Tilly Dillehay

Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman

Food was no longer a means of division-no longer a curtain. The curtain had become a tablecloth, and the table was laid with Christ the son.

Ever notice how much time Jesus spent around a table? If he wasn't sharing a meal with others, he was handing out free meals.

If Jesus called himself the "bread of life," why is it that our relationship with food is so complicated? We love it. We hate it. We hate that we love it. Whether we're obsessing over what not to consume-carbs, sugar, alcohol-or what we will devour-fat free, dairy free, gluten free-food has become burdensome.

Christian Book Award® winner Tilly Dillehay tackles the way we approach food. In Broken Bread, Dillehay identifies the four major food sins and the fears that drive them, and she offers a new way of thinking about food less in order to focus on more important matters.

When we take the business of breaking bread together seriously, as the early church did, we not only use the table to build community, faith, and love, but the act of preparing and eating food becomes sweeter, more savory, and much more enjoyable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ChristianAudio.com
• Release date: Jun 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781545914366

Tilly Dillehay

Tilly Dillehay holds a degree in journalism from Lipscomb University. In the past, she has been the editor of a weekly newspaper and of a lifestyle magazine, and now she serves as homemaker and mother to two little girls. She writes at www.justinandtilly.com and contributes occasionally to The Gospel Coalition. She is the host of The Green Workshop, an event for women on the subject of envy that is held at local churches. Tilly's husband, Justin, is a pastor in the small town east of Nashville where the family resides.

Reviews for Broken Bread

[Becca Tillotson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

So beautiful and viewpoint-shifting!! And so many great further-reading recommendations!

[Britny Woodhead · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I appreciated this eternal perspective of food, and how God uses it in so many ways to show our need of Him. It points out God's creativity, care, and that He is the ultimate satisfaction of the appetite of our souls. It was helpful to have practical chapters on eating disorders and how the christian should approach how to eat food, as well as hospitality chapters for the christian to be encouraged to use food to bless others and to glorify God in that.