Jay McCarl

(Soon to be released as a major documentary, ‘Eating with the Enemy‘)
I’m often asked, “Where did you get this stuff?” It began in 1991 when my friend Gayle Erwin explained to me the seating arrangements at the Last Supper. Later, while in Israel with Gayle, we saw a live presentation of the same study with a complete Biblical meal, hosted by colleagues of researcher Dr. Jim Fleming. Those events transformed my understanding of the Bible, but I needed to verify the data—and the journey began. I soon realized that the bulk of available scholarship had been seriously neglected. People gradually lost interest in this revealing field of study, and many important books fell out of print or languished in second-hand shops and university libraries. Thankfully, passionate investigators like Gayle, Dr. Fleming, Kenneth E. Bailey, Prof. Desi Maxwell and more have sparked renewed interest in Biblical backgrounds and ancient Semitic culture, semantics and Hebraic logic.

Imagine sitting down to dinner with your friends around a low, oddly-shaped table, the room illuminated by ancient oil lamps. The table is set with a sumptuous feast straight from the Bible. You are at a banquet that occurred thousands of years ago. You pray in Hebrew. Your hands are your dinnerware. As you dine, you observe meal customs and table manners from the times of Abraham to the Last Supper. Your host walks you step by step through the rich significance of Biblical meals and their amazing spiritual application in everyday life. Suddenly your mind overflows with an amazing new understanding of the Bible, your heart aflame with the challenge to walk deeply in the love of Jesus Christ. This is a Biblical Dinner…

A Biblical Dinner is not a Passover Seder, but an immersion into Biblical life the way the people of the Bible saw it

Dinner guests practice ancient table manners, dining on the same kind of food like Jesus and His disciples may have eaten.* But it’s more than a meal—Jay’s dramatic and often humorous presentation reveals forgotten customs that awaken an ancient and powerful understanding of Scripture, the Gospel and Christian love.

You experience…

• Eating the same kind of food as Jesus and His disciples
• Ancient mealtime manners, customs, greetings and gestures
• What really happened at the Last Supper and what it means to us today
• An amazing new understanding of Holy Communion

The Biblical Dinner is effective for…

• Evangelism
• Healing broken relationships
• Bible instruction
• Pastoral training
• Ministry Schools
• Both small and large churches
• Anytime of the year, and not limited to Easter holidays

The Biblical Dinner is full of surprises, including:

• Remarkable historical revelations from the The Last Supper
• Long-forgotten meal customs that unlock the Scriptures
• The startling significance of the Last Supper seating arrangements
• The tremendous implications of a simple piece of bread
• The Biblical “peace meal” that can reconcile God and man

* The Biblical Dinner is also available in sermon and seminar formats. These presentations include all the colorful content of the Biblical Dinner for a pulpit or classroom setting, and the length can be adjusted to meet your needs (from 1 to 8 hours). Contact me for more information.

The Biblical Dinner is an International Ministry