“Which one of us can face the reality of our sins, if we’re not first of all assured of Christ’s love for us, made tangible in the love from others” - it’s in knowing him that we can know ourselves... that’s why the Church’s expressed disapproval of sin always needs to be in the context of acceptance of the people concerned.”
- Ian Waddington
“It’s not about the food, because it isn’t. It’s actually about our identity as the people of God, and our mission as the people of God... Jesus embodies living in intimate relationships with all kinds of people - the socially respectable and the non-respectable. His friends, and His enemies. And He treated them all with respect even if they did not ‘deserve’ it. And we are called to do that…” - Tony Plews
“When we talk about how we want to live out the mission of Jesus, one of the things that we think about is how can we effectively do that in our natural rhythms of life. And if all of us have to eat, if all of us are around the table from time to time, we need to be thinking about as followers of Jesus, how we can use that time to be faithful to the mission that he has called us to do.”
- Kris Gilbert