II. The desire to avoid referring to fortune, luck, and chance may be influenced by a literal interpretation of verses such as Isaiah 65:11-12: 'But ye that forsake Jehovah, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune [i.e., Luck], and that fill up mingled wine unto Destiny, I will destine you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter' (asv).
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Other euphemisms meant to avoid references to fortune, luck, and chance are: *Godincidence; *good providence; and *providence cookie.
III. The modern meaning of the word potluck as a participatory meal seems to have arisen in the late 19th century; the earliest citations in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.) are from 1867, 1894, 1924, and 1926. It's unlikely that the North American usage of the word potluck was influenced by the Native American custom of potlatch.
• 1981Alton Telegraph (Illinois) (2 May) 13 : The Teachings of Christ Fellowship … Special Pot Blessing Luncheon, Sunday 1 p.m. 1995The Hamilton Spectator (9 Sep.) : The Bethel Single Adults will hold an end-of-summer celebration and pot blessing dinner Saturday, Sept. 16, at Bethel Gospel Tabernacle 1999The State Journal-Register (18 Sep.) : A pot blessing lunch will be held at 12:30 p.m. 2001Roanoke Times and World News (31 Mar.) : Fellowship and a Pot Blessing meal will follow the service. 2002 Haggard Dog Training, Fly Fishing, And Sharing Christ in The 21st Century 58 : The church did a great job of teaching the Bible on Sundays and Wednesdays in the main services, and offered fun activities from time to time, such as pot-blessing dinners, hay rides, and retreats for various groups within the congregation. It was a productive church. 2003Chicago Daily Heraldn (21 Apr.) : Parishioners at the Marengo church started the services with a meal and a prayer over the food called the pot blessing. 2003 Jackson The Yada Yada Prayer Group ch. 18 : 'Girl, I didn't bring no food for no potluck,' Florida whispered back. … 'Don't worry about it. There's always plenty.' She smirked at me. 'Well, that ain't no potluck then. More like a pot blessing, I'd say.' 2005 Mercer The Warm Wonderful World of Hospitality 26 : Classic Potblessing (Potluck). Ever popular among church crowds, potblessings remain so for three main reasons. 2008 Bierman Yes! 121 : I was invited to a covered-dish party that was to be at Ralph and Mary's home one evening. It was called a 'pot-blessing,' rather than a 'potluck' party. 2009 Brown The Racial and Cultural Divide: Are We Still Prejudiced? 86 : There is nothing like the food and its preparation around our church. We have something called 'Pot Blessing.' It's an offshoot of 'potluck,' and since we say 'there's no luck in the Kingdom of God, only blessings,' we have, as a result, derived the name 'Pot Blessing.'
• 2008 Joffe Square Peg in a Round Hole 95 : A congregational 'pot faith' meal followed services almost every Sunday. 2008 Duggar The Duggars: 20 and Counting!: Raising One of America's Largest Families 220 : We host a lot of different gatherings, most often our weekly home-church services, which bring fifty or so people into our home every Sunday for worship followed by a 'pot-faith' lunch. (Jim Bob doesn't believe in luck.)
potluckn. Some Christians avoid using this word because of concern about referring to luck. See *pot blessing.
• 1976The Presbyterian J. vol. 35 : Instead of assigning dishes for a 'pot providence' supper, ask everyone whose last name begins with the letters A–M to bring a main dish, and everyone whose last name begins with the letters N–Z to bring a side dish, salad, or dessert. 1995Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church Communicator vols. 5–6 : On Monday evening the first in a series of 'pot providence' dinners will be held. 1999Baptist Bulletin vol. 65 : They still shared 'pot-providence' meals in the same fellowship hall. 2000The Acts and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada : The chapel ministry is supplemented by Sunday school, monthly ‘pot providence' lunches after church, a weekly Bible study 2005 Lindvall et al. Ekklesia: To the Roots of Biblical House Church Life ch. 2 : The meal is potluck, or as we jokingly say, 'pot-providence.' 2009 Joyce Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement 110 : After a four-hour service, the families gathered together for an all-day fellowship, sharing a pot-providence meal, the children playing together in grassy fields till five or six in the evening.
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shared dinnern. An alternative term for potluck. See additional information at *pot blessing.
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tureen dinnern. Also: tureen supper. An alternative term for potluck. See additional information at *pot blessing.
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• 1932Missions: A Baptist Monthly Mag. vol. 23 55 : We meet once a month at the church for a tureen supper at 6:30, followed by a business and program meeting. 1934International J. Religious Education vol. 11 20 : Early in March, there is held a 'church family day' on a Sunday. A special speaker is secured for the morning worship service. A 'tureen dinner' is served in the dining room following Sunday school, and then there is community singing. 1940The Lutheran vol. 22 iss. 18 27 : The annual congregational meeting of Zion Church … was preceded by a tureen supper, and the attendance was the best in many years. 2001 Frankforter Stones for Bread: A Critique of Contemporary Worship 23 : But it also gathered congregations for agapes or 'love feasts,' full-fledged dinners not unlike a modern church's 'potluck' or 'tureen' suppers. 2002 Hammond Ohio States: A Twentieth-Century Midwestern 14 : If you had observed the Hammond family sitting in a pew at Howard Methodist on a Sunday morning or heard Mom chatting with the other ladies as they set out their dishes for a tureen supper in the church basement, you would have sensed nothing amiss. 2011 Frankforter Word of God, Words of Men: The Use and Abuse of Scripture 103 : Bugs would make an alarming, but scripturally validated, addition to a church tureen dinner.