A Meal With Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community And Mission Around The Table

By Tim Chester

Meals have always been important across societies and cultures - a time for friends and families to come together. An important part of relationships, meals are vital to our social health. Or as author Tim Chester puts it, 'Food connects.'
Tim argues that meals are also deeply theological - an important part of Christian fellowship and mission. He observes that Luke's Gospel is full of stories of Jesus at meals. And these meals represent something bigger. In six chapters Tim shows how they enact grace, community, hope, mission, salvation and promise.
Moving from New Testament times to today, the author applies biblical truth to challenge our contemporary understandings of hospitality. He urges sacrificial giving and loving around the table, helping readers consider how meals can be about serving others and sharing the grace of Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IVP
• Release date: Apr 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781844749522

Tim Chester

Tim Chester (PhD, University of Wales) is a faculty member of Crosslands and a pastor with Grace Church, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire. He is an author or coauthor of over forty books, including A Meal with Jesus; Reforming Joy; and, with Michael Reeves, Why the Reformation Still Matters.

Reviews for A Meal With Jesus

[stevejmclean · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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!