I've been going through the references on the bookmarks that Rob has been distributing as part of his "Alive" series. This week's subject is "Outreach". Yesterday and today were verses from Acts, 1:1-8 and 2:42-47, respectively. One thing that stuck out was the repeated references to eating.
The obvious ones for us are in the Acts 2 verses. In v42, "breaking of bread" (i.e. eating) is right up there with teaching, fellowship, and - interestingly before - prayer as activities to which the people devoted themselves.
It comes up again in v46 as an indicator of the health, vitality and attraction of the early church. This time it says they were daily in each others' homes "breaking bread" (i.e. eating) and "partaking of food" (RSV, i.e. eating).
Is it just me, or is there a theme here?
The other reference in 1:4 is not about the early church, but about Jesus Himself. He gave His charge to wait for the Holy Spirit while eating (i.e. eating) with his disciples. That's right, Jesus was into this meal-sharing thing, too!
I wonder if there's something here we can learn for ourselves?
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