We Will Feast
Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God
- Preaching & Worship
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Published: 2019
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Publisher's Description
Explores the practice of eating together as Christian worship The gospel story is filled with meals. It opens in a garden and ends in a feast. Records of the early church suggest that believers met for worship primarily through eating meals. Over time, though, churches have lost focus on the centrality of food— and with it a powerful tool for unifying Christ’s diverse body. But today a new movement is under way, bringing Christians of every denomination, age, race, and sexual orientation together around dinner tables. Men and women nervous about stepping through church doors are finding God in new ways as they eat together. Kendall Vanderslice shares stories of churches worshiping around the table, introducing readers to the rising contemporary dinner-church movement. We Will Feast provides vision and inspiration to readers longing to experience community in a real, physical way.
Endorsements (7)
“We Will Feast reminds us that to ignore food is to ignore God’s provision for our life and the flourishing of community. I finished this book more committed to and more hopeful for a church where all are fed.”
“Through humble loaves and take-out pizza, our tired ideas about worship take a truer shape. We Will Feast is everything I want in a book—rich prose, decadent storytelling, the taste of possibility. I’m already hungry for more.”
“In her examination of the dinner-church movement, Kendall Vanderslice treats us to the written equivalent of a pleasant, nourishing meal. She's good, thoughtful company, and she sets a generous, inclusive table. Crucially, she reminds us that food and the table and the feast aren't just evocative metaphors or stirring biblical imagery. We need them—and we need each other—to live.”
“A balm to the souls of readers who might be wondering how they can be a part of a kind of church that brings meals out of the afterthought space and straight into the heart of worship.”
“Vanderslice brings together her unique combination of culinary talent, anthropological observation, and passion for Scripture to give us an inspiring picture of what is possible when Christians eat together.”
“This book is like the meals Kendall writes about: simple, communal, generous, and satisfying. But like the best meals—like the Eucharist itself—it leaves you longing to repeat it over and over again.”
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