While at the Diocese of Kansas Gathering of Presbyters last week at the Spiritual Life Center in Wichita, I saw The Last Supper depicted in some small porcelain figurines around a small table on a shelf near the Refectory. Someone (probably one of my colleagues) had rearranged the figures in an interesting way. Instead of Jesus being seated in the center and all the disciples gathered around him, Jesus was positioned at the corner of the table, extending bread-filled hands outward, while the disciples were all centered on themselves. There is an epiphany here!
Do the disciples of Jesus have a tendency to mistake deliberation for mission? Are we too busy with our meetings to offer the Bread of Life to the world at our doorstep? Are we too focused on feeding ourselves to be useful to our Lord in feeding the multitudes? How can we who receive him become a sacrament to a world in need?
This is a great way to look at it!
Posted by: Nathaniel Mayhew | 11/12/2009 at 09:42 PM
In A GENEROUS ORTHODOXY, Brian McLaren appreciates evangelical Christians for their tendency to just get things done. This is in contrast to many mainline church folks who tend to delay or dilute mission while they form bureauacracies.
Posted by: Ron Pogue | 11/13/2009 at 05:59 AM