At the upcoming Missional Learning Commons in Fort Wayne (Jan 8-9, 2010), Chris Smith and I will be giving a talk on “Crucial Practices for Deeper Churches.” We’ll be discussing how corporate worship and communal economics are intertwined in the community of faith to shape us for participation in God’s mission. I have become fascinated by the connection between these two things, especially in the early church. You could call it “Eucharistic economics.”
It turns out John Howard Yoder has a lot to say on the subject. So here are several conversation-provoking quotes from the chapter on Eucharist in Yoder’s Body Politics: