Got Fish?

When in the presence of the risen Christ, still the disciples are wondering and disbelieving. One might expect Jesus to get frustrated with these disciples. How could they not believe? How could their hearts be so hardened? But he doesn’t do that. No, instead of seeking to prove to them who he is or what has happened, he instead asks to eat with them, to share a simple meal around a table with them. The prerequisite of Jesus’ fellowship wasn’t belief, wasn’t agreement, and wasn’t devotion. Jesus sat with them at the table and ate, a symbolic gesture in the first-century Jewish culture of acceptance and union. Jesus demonstrated what was important in a postresurrection world: all transformation begins, not with evidence or reasoning, but with simple fellowship around a table.