Table Communities

Table Communities are communities of friends gathering around tables across Chicago to practice the way of Jesus together.

We share a meal, follow a simple pattern we call our Table Liturgy, and spend time learning and practicing one of the ways of Jesus together.

Most Table Communities meet for about two hours. They're a place to deepen our worship, grow in friendship, and become saints together.

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What is a Table Liturgy?

Every Table Community follows the same simple rhythm. It's a way of helping us slow down, pay attention to God and one another, and make space for the practices that form us.

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  • We put away our phones and leave the distractions behind. We give our attention to God and to one another.

  • We light a candle to mark this place and this time as something set apart.

  • We share bread and wine together, remembering Christ's presence with us as we pay attention to each other.

  • We ask intentional questions that help us move beyond small talk and grow in knowing one another.

  • We study, reflect, and practice one of the ways of Jesus we're learning together.

  • We pray for one another, bringing our lives, needs, hopes, and struggles before God.

  • We close by blessing one another and carrying what we've received into the week.

Eight Practices for Becoming Saints

We believe becoming saints requires practice.

Following the ancient pattern of Christian communities we've identified eight practices of Jesus that we want to learn and live together over the course of the year.

  • Prayer

    Learning to attend and commune with God throughout our ordinary lives.

  • Sabbath

    Learning to find our rest in God, when our impulse is to strive and earn.

  • Fasting

    Learning to resist our hunger for consumption, in order to trust God with our needs

  • Solitude

    Learning to face our fear of being alone, in order to find God in the wilderness of solitude.

  • Hospitality

    Learning to make room in our lives for strangers at our tables, so that they might become friends

  • Generosity

    Learning to loosen our grip on control, in order to be come a people who freely give of ourselves

  • Justice

    Learning to seek the good of our neighbors, that we might contend for God’s work of renewal

  • Witness

    Learning to embody the good news of Jesus, that our whole lives might proclaim Jesus is Lord.

Questions?

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