THE MEANING OF COMMUNAL EATING ACCORDING TO JESUS AND THE THEOLOGICAL-MISSIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR MINISTRY IN INDONESIA

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Published Oct 9, 2025
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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): RERUM: The Journal of Biblical Practice

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Ramly Donald Belly Lumintang
Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Moriah

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Eating together has become a tradition and custom deeply embedded in almost all ethnicities, races, and cultures in Indonesian society. Eating together is typically done during traditional and religious celebrations, and has even become a routine and programmed activity of churches. Eating together aims to foster intimacy, friendship, and family ties, fostering mutual tolerance. Sometimes, this purpose has faded, with eating together becoming simply a shared meal and then being finished. In the Gospels, Jesus also shared a meal with tax collectors and sinners, with the purpose of proclaiming the message of forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation. Jesus shared more than just a meal; it also had theological and missiological significance. The church must return to the principles of sitting down to a meal like Jesus'.

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Lumintang, Ramly Donald Belly. 2025. “THE MEANING OF COMMUNAL EATING ACCORDING TO JESUS AND THE THEOLOGICAL-MISSIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR MINISTRY IN INDONESIA”. RERUM: Journal of Biblical Practice 5 (2):180-203. https://doi.org/10.55076/rerum.v5i2.501.

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