Is there a difference in your church between the way you do liturgy and the way you do outreach? How does Scripture inform your outreach work?Ĩ. Miles writes that food pantry was “not a social service program but a service, modeled on the Eucharist” (p. Does reading about her experience change your religious beliefs about homosexuality?ħ. “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” What does this mean in the context of Miless food pantry and the people involved with it?Ħ. Read through these vows, and discuss how you live each one out.ĥ. Miles was baptized as an adult and writes that she takes her baptismal vows seriously. Do you think rites that take place outside of what she calls an “official” church context can be truly sacramental? Do you ever experience church outside of church? Have you experienced Eucharist outside of a church service?Ĥ. Discuss Miless understanding of the rites of healing, marriage, baptism, and Eucharist. Do you share Miless belief that Jesus Table should be open to everyone? Are there people you think should not be allowed to receive communion?ģ. What has been your most powerful experience of communion?Ģ. “Rigorously honest, Take This Bread demonstrates how hard-and how necessary-it is to welcome everyone to the table, without exception.”ĭont miss the reading group guide in the back of the book.ġ. a story of finding sustenance and passing it on.” advocates big-tent Christianity in the truest sense. “What Miles learns about faith, about herself and about the gift of giving and receiving graciously are wonderful gifts for the reader.” This book is a gem will remain with you forever.”
Why would any thinking person become a Christian? is one of the questions she addresses, and her answer is also compelling reading.” Miles comments, often with great insight, on the ugliness that many people associate with a particular brand of Christianity.
“Engaging, funny, and highly entertaining.
Here, in this achingly beautiful, passionate book, is the living communion of Christ. Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters-church ladies, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and thieves-all blown into Miless life by the relentless force of her newfound calling. Within a few years, she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen food pantries in the poorest parts of their city. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the churchs altar to be given away. A lesbian left-wing journalist whod covered revolutions around the world, Miles didnt discover a religion that was about angels or good behavior or piety her faith centered on real hunger, real food, and real bodies. Early one morning, for no earthly reason, Sara Miles, raised an atheist, wandered into a church, received communion, and found herself transformed-embracing a faith shed once scorned.
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