We Will Feast – Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God, by Kendall Vanderslice
Thoughts
- Order pizza and have it delivered. People can bring side dishes if they want – not obligated, or should we not even do that?
- Start with just once a month
- Try to get FAC to join us
- “Bookend” bread and wine: Start with breaking and passing bread, then eat, then end with passing the juice
- No schedules or lists for volunteers! Whoever comes pitches in. This way it doesn’t feel like yet another obligation to fill.
- No sound or PP, no microphones, acoustical and unplugged
- Tables and chairs in the back of the sanctuary where we have natural light from the windows
- Possible order:
- Stand in circle for bread breaking and passing
- Get in line and get pizza on plate
- Go to table
- Singing first – 3 songs and prayer.
- Everyone starts eating
- Sermon while continuing and finishing eating.
- Conversation prompts? Lectio divina? discussion around the table.
- Holy ground rules – p. 86
- Pass the juice around the table
- Closing song
- Clean up
- No nursery so we don’t need nursery volunteers? Set up a small corner in back with the slide and climbing things from the nursery, and kids table and chairs with paper and crayons? Maybe no toys because that causes fights and would mean moms/dads would have to intervene more. (Sharing is hard.)
- 5 minute breaks to allow questions and reflections a few times during sermon. Keep short so it’s not a Bible study, but allows some dialog and space for questions. (Bible study can make visitors feel excluded.)
- Gospel – ministry of meals – p. 3, 14 – list of meals
- Eating together central, not just because Jesus happened to have bread and wine – p. 17. More pp. 167-168.
- Jesus didn’t first ask us to believe the right things but to practice them – p. 169
- Community is central – p. 35. Use Betsy’s story about “doing life together.”
- As world becomes more divided, digital and impersonal, sit together and eat, share communion remembering Christ. Something powerful happens at the table – p. 4
- You don’t have to agree. Lively debate. – p. 6. Holy ground rules – p. 86
- Dinner church not perfect – p. 9. Not a cool space – p. 88
- Don’t make it complicated, don’t let the meal become a status symbol. Purpose is to build a life-giving community – p. 81
- Full meal together as worship, Jesus present in all life, even mundane – p. 35 – Reformed world and life view!
- Sabbath is not a reprieve from life, but putting an end to the restlessness that prevents a deep engagement with life, space to take delight in the fruits of our labor – p. 28
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