A Meal with Jesus Quotes

“That’s the scandal of grace. It means that if you’ve been working hard to be right with God, then you’ve been wasting your time because God welcomes everyone—righteous and unrighteous alike.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“As far as the Pharisees were concerned, if you gave a dish to the poor it became unclean, because the poor were the great unwashed who didn’t fulfill ceremonial washing. But Jesus says the dish becomes clean because it expresses love.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“Jesus is handing out God’s party invitations. They read: “You’re invited to my party in the new creation. Come as you are.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“American Christians spend more on dieting than on world missions.5 We spend more curing our overconsumption than we do feeding the physically and spiritually hungry of the world.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“The word “companion” comes from the Latin “cum” (“together”) and “panis” (“bread”).”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“The teachers of the law created a system that allowed them to feel superior, and then lifted not one finger to help others. Think how this might play out today. Today’s Pharisees might condemn the poor for their dysfunctional families, but lift not one finger to help. Today’s Pharisees might condemn the poor for their excessive drinking, but lift not one finger to ease their pain. Today’s Pharisees might condemn the poor for their laziness, but lift not one finger to provide employment. Today’s Pharisees might condemn the poor for their abortions, but lift not one finger to adopt unwanted children. I’m not defending dysfunctional families, drunkenness, and so on. But we can’t condemn these things at a distance. That’s legalism. We must come alongside, proclaiming and demonstrating the transforming grace of God.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal With Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community And Mission Around The Table

“a cozy social atmosphere above all else. . . . For those seeking a refuge from the world, the cup of coffee they bought was really just the price of admission to partake of the coffeehouse scene.”9 Starbucks is selling us hospitality.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“People don’t want to be projects.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“The table fellowship of Jesus, with its ethic of grace rather than reciprocity, was creating a new countercultural society in the midst of the Empire.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“We may not long for bread, but we long for meaning, intimacy, fulfillment, community, purpose, and joy.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“Jesus the Savior can’t do his work unless he’s with sinful people.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“Jesus says the dish becomes clean because it expresses love. The cleanliness that counts is found in the heart (Mark 7:20–23). But Jesus’s”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table

“In Luke’s Gospel Jesus is either going to a meal, at a meal, or coming from a meal.”
― Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table