Ideashare: How to Have a Missional Meal
This past Sunday night, we hosted a really fun event called “How to Have a Missional Meal.” Full disclosure, it was based on some of the concepts in Tim Chester’s A Meal With Jesus and a few videos from the Verge Network.
It was a 90 minute event that included a meal, teaching, conversation, dessert, and a challenge to leave and make a difference (including a gift to send people on their way a little more “equipped”). The teaching and conversation bits were short and continuously switching to keep the night moving—none of the teaching elements were more than 7-8 minutes long.
Here’s a quote from the intro that explains what we were going for:
We often don’t consider how food, and specifically eating meals, is related to what God has created us for. In fact, it’s not just food but it’s generally the very mundane, ordinary things of life where we have the most opportunity to see the presence of God at work. These are also, since they seem to be so mundane, the easiest opportunities to miss.
But, no more. Tonight we want to start to condition ourselves to see God at work everywhere, particularly through food and table fellowship.
We want to start being people who expect God to show up when we sit down to eat with others, and then hopefully we’ll start seeing God show up everywhere.
Why am I blogging about this? Because I have an entire evening of teaching content, conversation questions, and outlined programming, and I’ll pass it along to anyone who wants it.
So, please contact me if you’d like the curriculum to use at your church!
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