"This passage is echoing the Eucharist because the Eucharist leads to the feeding of the multitudes for Christians. We are literally to make table in the midst of the community and feed people. This uniquely Christia n understanding of mission is tied into the Gospel. We are to feed their minds and their bodies. And, we are to do it out in the world. The church can be so very narcissistic sometimes, thinking that it is all about us! The reality is this is all about the world and our call to be agents of feeding in it. We are the new Eucharistic symbol that is to literally feed people.
To flip this around means that we are completely out of sync with the narrative story and in some ways let off the hook for doing the right thing in the midst of a very private gathering and failing our mission as Christians."
http://hitchhikingthebible.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/proper-12bordinary-17bpentecost-9.html
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