July 16, 2018: Symbolic Communication at the Table

Robert E. Webber

There is a symbolic communication involved in our very taking of bread and wine, our eating and drinking. . . . Bread and wine are to be consumed. They are to be taken into the hand, put into the mouth, and digested in our stomach. This is the human side of the Table, the response that the signs of bread and wine call for. When we receive that bread into our mouth, bite and chew it, we are claiming God’s work. We are saying, “You paid the price; you did the work; you achieved my salvation; I accept it.”


-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996), 96-97.

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Alumni Director, Practicum Professor, and DWS graduate.

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