Eat & Pray

Today's devotional from Scripture Union (see my blog entry: Daily Devotions for the Internet Generation) is about the Passover Jesus shared with his disciples just before his crucifixion. The reading is from Matthew.

What caught my attention was the short note about agape meals. It was as follows:

To do list

With other Christian friends (and your minister’s blessing or involvement) plan an informal agape meal together. Share food, prayer, praise and personal stories of what Jesus has done for you, and read these Bible verses together.

It strikes me that we spend too little time even thinking about what God has done for us recently, let alone sharing those stories with others. When did our faith become so personalised, so privatised, that we lost the priority of walking together on our journeys of faith?

When the writer of Hebrews urges the readers not to forget to meet together, I suspect he wasn't thinking purely in terms of turning up on a Sunday as we are prone to think.