Make plans to gather around the table @HOME with your family and another family or two.
Prepare a simple meal for your guests, have everyone bring something, prepare a meal together, or just enjoy some snacks or dessert together. Spend time getting to know one another, building deeper connections, and introducing friends that haven't met to one another.
Center Your Table Conversations on These Things:
* Our God is a Speaking God. How has God been speaking to you, in you, or through you this week?
* Our God is a Saving God. How has salvation restored and fulfilled you this week?
* Our God is a Satisfying God. How have you been satisfied by God or in God this week?
* Our God made us to ENJOY all of these wonderful things about HIM...TOGETHER.
* We, the church, are collectively called His Bride, His Flock, His Body, His Family of Adopted Children, Living Stones in His Temple. All of His references to us are collective, never individual. Why do you think that is? We may have been saved individually, but we live out our Christian lives collectively.
* The local church is a household built around a table—the Lord’s Table, where we come to commune around the bread and wine, a meal with our God. God made dinner tables to have a certain gravity to them, a certain weight. When we share a meal together, we’re each being built up by the same food, each becoming bodies made of the same stuff. The church is made of many tables, and we are convinced that those tables have gravity, too, and that gravity should pull others into its orbit.
* So one of the biggest—yet simplest—means through which we aim to foster family ONENESS as a church is through INTENTIONAL table fellowship. We model it often at church through The Lord's Supper and Breakfasts, MidWeek Family Meals, Ladies' Luncheons, etc.
