Food, Hearts, and Eyes

<p>Introduction:</p><p>Food is an interesting unifying factor in community life.  Baptists are well known for it! Here are some interesting insights into different cultural interactions with food that we have enjoyed over the years!</p><ol><li>Germans and their breakfasts – meals in a home are a special event: The eye eats along with it.</li><li>France, reserve a table and it is yours for the evening!!! (Many courses of small amounts, and restaurants are required by law to have a full meal available at a reasonable price so all can afford to eat.)</li><li>In Spain you ate late because you had to sleep after lunch 9 PM was a usual time to eat out.</li><li>In China, all eat with chop sticks from a center turntable</li><li>In Uganda, we ate with fingers - not just smell good, taste good, but it must feel good as well!)</li><li>In the middle east we ate with bread from a central dish - or even from your own plate. Show how it was done.</li><li>Eating is more than nourishment, it is a community, or family event.</li></ol><p>Step 1: Trying to understand.  The two of them belong to the “rest of them” from verse 9.</p><p>Step 2: Jesus joins them and is very pastoral in both listening to their struggle and explaining the purpose of the scriptures to them.</p><ul><li>Separation of the us and them who crucified Jesus. Luke lays the blame at the feet of the chief priests and elders</li><li>They were still hoping for the redemption of Israel (vs. 21) but bewildered by the report of the resurrection</li><li>Others, not just Peter, went to the tomb and found it empty. This is critical to the narrative as it is repeated several times which is significant.  We are not just dealing with a philosopher, or a good man, or a great teacher, but one who is powerful and eternal and possessing all authority in heaven and earth!</li></ul><p>Step 3: Jesus begins to explain from the scriptures who he is!  All scripture is prophetic concerning him and his suffering and death and resurrection.  The OT cannot be properly understood apart from i