St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

View this email in your browserYour Testimony About MeI spent this past week with a few close fellow pastors studying the theology of wine. Yes, you read that right. My friends and I were awarded a grant that has enabled us to explore the ordinary elements of the Lord’s Supper and how they inform a life of feasting. We’re not only investigating bread and wine in their historical near eastern context, but also the physical cultural implications of these today. Does it “matter” what wine or bread we use? What about the process undertaken to produce them? How locally sourced they are? Is there something uniquely profound about the choice Jesus made to use bread and wine, or could he have used popcorn and beer?  One of the things I’ve explored in this study is the tradition and nature of a drink offering. As far back as Genesis 35 we see Jacob pour out a drink offering as his first act after being renamed Israel. Remember, this happened at Bethel, just after his strange dream of a ladder to heaven. But a veil-pie