Food for thought (perhaps literally)

I'm reading The Crucified God by Jürgen Moltmann for my SysTheo class, and I read a particularly thought-inspiring (partial) paragraph.

"The cultic division between the religious and the profane is potentially abolished in faith in the Christ who was profaned by crucifixion. Thus the eucharist, like the meals held by Jesus with 'sinners and publicans', must also be celebrated with the unrighteous, those who have no rights and the godless from the 'highways and hedges' of society, in all their profanity, and should no longer be limited, as a religious sacrifice, to the inner circle of the devout, to those who are members of the same denomination. The Christian church can re-introduce the divisions between the religious and the profane and between those who are within and those who are without, only at the price of losing its own identity as the church of the crucified Christ" (44).

He takes my eucharistic conviction a step further, to a place I had wondered about, but hadn't dared go. The step before this, which is where I am currently, is that the Lord's Table was always meant to be a potluck, not some solemn religious ceremony where trays are passed with wafers and grape juice. Even the Anglican (and others') model of going up to a rail, while better, doesn't get to the idea of table fellowship.

Compared to Moltmann, my eucharistic model was the Last Supper, where it seems to be an intimate group of Jesus' followers. On the other hand, God's point through the sacrificial system was to dine with his beloved humans estranged as they were. What's to say that the Lord's Table isn't meant to be block parties? Some will object that Communion is a sacred celebration. "Can't have the riffraff defile the Lord's Table." By that standard, I don't think Jesus did a sacred thing his entire life. Conversely, as Rob Bell stated in the title of his speaking tour two years ago, "everything is spiritual." Perhaps the first step is figuring out Jesus' view of sacred v. profane. Then a rethinking of the eucharist. Anybody up for that?

How about non-Christians at the Eucharist?