{"id":758,"date":"2006-03-05T05:50:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T05:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/03\/christ-plays-eucharist-and-hos.html"},"modified":"2006-03-05T05:50:16","modified_gmt":"2006-03-05T05:50:16","slug":"christ-plays-eucharist-and-hos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/03\/christ-plays-eucharist-and-hos.html","title":{"rendered":"Christ Plays: Eucharist and Hospitality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This section in Eugene Peterson&#8217;s book, <em>Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places<\/em>, deals with how the fear-of-the-Lord is developed in history: Peterson suggests it occurs through Eucharist and Hospitality.<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nThe Eucharist:<br \/>\nTwo elements: remembrance and proclamation. The Eucharist anchors us in the depths of God&#8217;s work in history and prevents us from turning the faith into devotional exercises. It emphasizes a not-doing but a taking. And then the elements of sacrifice and ritual and shape come in. Four words shape the Eucharist: take, bless, break, and give.<br \/>\nHospitality:<br \/>\nPeterson brings in the problem we have with meals which have been deconstructed in our modern world.<br \/>\nWell, I&#8217;ve not found much of interest in this section, and I&#8217;m wondering if those who are reading Peterson with me did. If so, chime in; if not, I&#8217;ll take your silence as a comment on the future of this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This section in Eugene Peterson&#8217;s book, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, deals with how the fear-of-the-Lord is developed in history: Peterson suggests it occurs through Eucharist and Hospitality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christ Plays: Eucharist and Hospitality - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/03\/christ-plays-eucharist-and-hos.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christ Plays: Eucharist and Hospitality - 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