Sentence examples for fellowship meal from inspiring English sources
The central focus of the liturgy of the early church was the Eucharist, which was interpreted as a fellowship meal with the resurrected Christ.
The love feast (Holy Communion) is observed twice each year and includes foot washing, a fellowship meal, and anointing for physical and spiritual health.
Others interpret agape as a fellowship meal held in imitation of gatherings attended by Jesus and his disciples; the Eucharist is believed to have been joined to this meal later but eventually to have become totally separated from it.
Faith in the Resurrection and an expectation of the continuation of the fellowship meal with the exalted Son of Man are two basic elements of the Eucharist that have been a part of the liturgy from the beginnings of the church.
Fellowship meals continued in association with the postapostolic Eucharist, as is shown in the Didachē (a Christian document concerned with worship and church discipline written c. 100 c. 140) and in the doctrinal and liturgical development described in the writings of the Early Church Fathers little was changed.
You undoubtedly have heard that Barack Obama invited Romney for lunch this week, in what was described in many reports as a longstanding tradition of re-elected presidents having a good-fellowship meal with the person whose political dreams they had just shattered.
They came to meet with each other in fellowship, Bible discussion, meals, and pilgrimage together.
Over eight days, we dug into the contents of more than a dozen medieval manuscripts, learned from one another, and shared laughs and a good helping of fellowship over many meals.
Those living in the house have committed to the PathWays Household Covenant of daily prayer, weekly meals, fellowship, service, and friendship in Durham.
The Church Fathers used agape to designate both a rite (using bread and wine) and a meal of fellowship to which the poor were invited.
Let us appreciate this meal in fellowship and celebration.
