“Feasting grows out of a sense of God’s abundance and generosity. Because feasting is in the first place a blessing of God, who is the source of food and all life and sustenance, it is an acknowledgement of God’s bounty and generosity. The banquet of the kingdom is about abundance…an exuberant recognition of God’s mammoth surplus of love and goodness…
One of the reasons we may have trouble feasting is because our human economy is premised on scarcity. We hoard for fear of not having enough…but God is is a God of abundance. Does a sense of scarcity or abundance dominate our emotional as well as economic imagination?
This abundance and generosity is particularly visible in the fact that all are invite to Jesus banquet. The feast is set for all but the blind, the poor, and the lame are those who accept the invitation first (Luke 14:12; cf. Deut 10:17-19). The feast that Jesus imagines is the feast of a gift economy where absolutely all are included.”
L. Shannon Jung in Sharing Food: Christian Practices for Enjoyment (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006) 63-64.