Small Group Questions

1)   When you were a kid, did your family ever have meals together? What was a Thanksgiving-type meal typically like in your family?

2)   What is the most lavish banquet you’ve ever attended? What as it like?

3)   Can you think of a time when you were invited to a meal and some of the other guests were quite different from you? Or, maybe you served in a soup kitchen for the homeless? Did the meal help bring people together?

4)   Do you think the Lord’s Supper is mostly about your personal meal and forgiveness; or mostly about breaking down walls between people by creating a large, common meal?

5)   “Eucharist” means Thanksgiving. The Lord’s Supper is supposed to be a celebration of thanksgiving for God’s grace and love. Is communion in your church more like that, or more like a somber funeral? Somewhere in-between?