Feasting on Hope

I’ve made the case that the gospel-centered movement needs a shot of confessional sacramentology if it wants to be refreshed and missionally potent in the coming years. My focus has been on the spiritual reality of participating in Christ with the sacraments, but especially when it comes to the Lord’s Supper, the rubber meeting the road in the life of the church is being able to articulate how Jesus meets us at the table. Pastorally you can hammer the point all day long that in the Supper you truly feed on Christ, but what that means for the regular Christian who comes to the Table can sometimes feel vague.

My friend Hannah King has written the most wonderful book addressing just this. Feasting on Hope: How God Sets a Table in the Wilderness is part memoir, part pastoral theology about what it means for God to feed his people with Jesus at the Table. Not that she is short on good theology, but her focus in the book is what it means for us to receive Jesus. Not the doctrinal question — but what does it mean to meet Christ?