Why Eating Together Might Save Us

Why Eating Together Might Save Us

May 24, 2026 · 43 min

About this episode

This sermon explores how sharing meals can address loneliness and foster community, drawing on biblical stories and neuroscience.

Most of us are lonelier than we’re willing to admit — and we’re not telling anyone about it. This sermon is about the most ordinary thing in the world: a table. A meal. It turns out that simple thing might be the answer to something much larger. Drawing from the story of Jesus eating with the people no one else would eat with (Luke 5), Acts 2, the neuroscience of bonding, and a Van Gogh painting about Belgian coal miners — this sermon makes the case that God has always worked through ordina...

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