The party and the parties - 8

8 The party and the parties
Part Two THE THANK-YOU PARTY

The Jesus-meal (to use an unusual though neutral phrase for it) was already woven into the heart of Christian living by the time Paul wrote to Corinth in the mid-50s, twenty years or so after Jesus’ death and resurrection. It held such a strong place in Paul’s own thinking that he could speak of the very action of the meal as proclaiming the death of the Lord until he comes. Doing it said it…