Soul (simpli)City Sundays
- Sometimes it’s the Simplest Things…
This past Sunday our Soul City Sunday Agenda was fairly simple:
- Connect
- Make Pizza
- Connect
- Eat Pizza
- Connect
- Pray
- Play Monopoly (Jeanne won, but almost lost her faith and friends in the process!)
In the midst of all the Dreaming, Praying, Planning, Team Building, Fund Raising, Location Scouting, and Blogging, we figured that the best thing we could to do together was…EAT. This simple idea is more than merely a human impulse, it is something Divine.
Again and again, throughout the pages of scripture we see FOOD. From the Feasts of the Old Testament, to the Feeding of the 5000, to the Last Supper, to the Shared Meals of the first church, to the Great Wedding Banquet – food plays a prevalent role in the pages of scripture and has a profound affect in the story of our lives.
Sometimes, it’s the simplest things, like good food shared together that can help us experience life as rich and full as God intended it. We experienced this first hand (and mouth) this past week at Soul City Sunday. And if I have anything to do with it…we’ll be experiencing it again Very Soon!
//What are some of the ways you’ve shared Intentional Meals with others? Was it a “Church” thing, friend thing, or a neighborhood thing? Why don’t we do this more?//
Jackie R.
That is hilarious because I remember some intense Monopoly games Jeanne was involved in back in the day… with close to similar results. Great memories!
In answer to the ?s… Henri Nouwen has a lot of great meditations on being around the table together we used in church a few months ago. One service during this series we just got in groups of 5-10 and each group had a basket of different kinds of bread, some made by church members and just broke bread together and dialogued in community… and used the same bread for communion, the most significant shared meal… it was a great service. We have done various things around this gathering for meals such as setting up tables in the middle of the seating where we usually have chairs and have communion set at plates around the table to share the meal as well… and a weekly option is to take communion in our side worship room where we set up a table with 4 place settings weekly that people can sit around together for communion…
We also have some friends we have dinner with on a regular basis. Usually just a simple Papa Murphy's pizza which avoids the barriers – stress about cooking, cleaning and time…
Ok, instead of going on I'll just link to the intro to one of our communion's about intentionally sharing meals… http://travelingmercies.blogspot.com/2009/09/shar...
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