Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

Once Covid hit us in 2019, many things changed in our lives.  One of the things that changed for us is having dinner parties.  I love to have people over for dinner, and I really have missed this experience.  I love to set the table with my good dishes and have it look beautiful and inviting when people gather to eat.  I especially love it when everyone sits down at the table to simply enjoy the food, the conversation, and the entire experience of table fellowship.  I really believe that extending hospitality to others by eating together is a vital, deeply meaningful aspect of what it means to be human.  The writer of Luke’s gospel understood meal-time hospitality and table fellowship.  Luke’s gospel contains more meal-time scenes than any of the other gospels.   In fact, meal-time experiences and dinner party gatherings were one way in which the writer of Luke described and portrayed a vision of the Christian life.  In Luke, Jesus is frequently eating, drinking, partying, and participating in table fellowshi