As we continue with our message series, Engaging With Purpose, this week we were challenged to “eat” with others, the next step in the five habits for living transformational lives: Bless, Eat, Listen, Learn, Sent (B.E.L.L.S.). How did you do with last week’s challenge of blessing others? If you didn’t hear last week’s message, click here for the podcast.

 

ENGAGING WITH PURPOSE

Message by Joshua Mutter – January 26, 2020

HABIT #2 – EAT

“I will eat with three people this week, at least one of whom doesn’t attend our church.”

Mark 10:45, Luke 19:10 NIV For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many… For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

Luke 7:34 NIV The Son of Man came eating and drinking…

“It is through the daily practice of the table that we live a life worth living. Through the table we know who we are, where we come from, what we value and believe. At the table we learn what it means to be family and how to live in responsible, loving relationships. Through the table we live our neighbourliness and citizenship, express our allegiance to particular places and communities, and claim our sense of home and belonging. At the table, we celebrate beauty and express solidarity with those who are broken and hungry.” Simon Carey Holt, author of Eating Heaven: Spirituality at the Table

“The practice of eating and drinking together invites us to lean in and get to know another person.”

 

CHRISTIAN HOSPITALITY…

1. Is not limited by social boundaries

1 Corinthians 11:17-22 NIV In the following directives I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good. In the first place, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it. No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval. So then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat, for when you are eating, some of you go ahead with your own private suppers. As a result, one person remains hungry and another gets drunk. Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God by humiliating those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? Certainly not in this matter!

2. Is to be Jesus-centred

1 Corinthians 11:23-28 NIV For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup.

APPLICATION

“I will eat with three people this week, at least one of whom doesn’t attend our church.”

WHO WILL I “EAT” WITH? – FROM MY CHURCH

WHO WILL I “EAT” WITH? – A FRIEND WHO DOESN’T KNOW JESUS

WHO WILL I “EAT” WITH? – FREEBIE

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