| Mark Wilson
Adult
• 4 Sessions of Learner’s Materials
• 4 Sessions of Teaching Materials
• 5 Handouts
1. Matthew 26:17-30
2. Psalm 65
3. Amos 2:6-8; 5:18-27; 6:4-7
4. Luke 14:7-14
One benefit and challenge of the gospel is the invitation to see the world through different eyes. Christ challenged his hearers to view the world with imagination—a sense of God-inspired wonder. The seed in front of you may look like a mustard seed, but according to Jesus, we can see it as the kingdom of God. With a little imagination, the most commonplace, lifeless objects can signify something powerful and awesome.
These sessions challenge us to apply gospel lenses and holy imagination to what literally gives us energy to live: food. With a little imagination, we can develop a theology of food—an understanding of how something as basic as food shapes our relationships with God and each other. A Christian theology of food challenges us to care for and support those who are hungry. With God’s grace, we have the opportunity to imagine communities where tables are large and all are fed.
A part of the NextSunday Resources line of adult Bible studies, Christians and Hunger contains four lessons for use as individual study or group discussion. Each study contains lessons on the biblical material, combined with an additional commentary from an alternate, but complementary, viewpoint.
Mark Wilson is the author of the Christians and Hunger study. He coordinates community and civic engagement initiatives for the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. He is the author of several articles on southern religious history, particularly Baptists in the South, and his dissertation on longtime Southern Baptist professor of missions, William Owen Carver, is forthcoming with Mercer University Press.
Cecil Sherman is the commentary writer for Christians and Hunger. A native of Fort Worth Texas, he has pastored churches in Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, and New Jersey. He has most recently served as visiting professor of pastoral ministries at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. He is the author of the five-volume Formations Commentary series and the autobiography By My Own Reckoning.
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