Welcome to The TABLE.
As a community splitting our time evenly between our “Gathered” and “Scattered” expressions, this resource page is updated on a bi-weekly basis with scripture study notes for our OUTPOST-based “Table” Sundays (2nd and 4th Sundays every month). This same text will then be the focus of our teaching and corporate worship on the “Gathering” Sunday (1st and 3rd Sundays every month) which follows.
We also provide a link whereby anyone may join our “VIRTUAL” TABLE outpost (on “Table” Sundays) via ZOOM at 10:00am each 2nd and 4th Sunday, should they be unable to join us in person on any given week.
For our ZOOM study group, we invite folks to download the study notes (link below) and dig in for some personal study time beforehand: beginning around 9:30am, or whenever otherwise convenient. At 10:00am, we fire up the ZOOM meeting and come together for a group conversation about our observations, interpretations and applications from the text. We close our time together in prayer.
Table Resources
Beginning in January 2024, we’ll be taking time together in study to revisit our “Trellis” of shared spiritual formation and practices.
As a community, we understand that to follow Jesus means being on a journey of daily “becoming” - formation, in the image of Christ - guided and empowered by His Spirit, and exercised in the tangible activity of our lives. We understand that how we spend our time is, in the end, how we have spent our lives, and we want to spend our lives growing in the love and likeness of Jesus!
We offer the resource of a basic framework for thinking about this journey in four “directions” - UP, IN, OUT, and WITH - along with some suggested ongoing spiritual practices. These can be found on our TRELLIS resource page, and we’ll be taking the season ahead to unpack some of the thinking and scriptures which lead us to them.
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From January - May 2024, for each TABLE / GATHERING cycle we’ll be looking at one of the eight different spiritual practices that correspond with our four Trellis “directions”:
UP
1/14 & 1/21/2024 : Scripture Study
1/28 & 2/4/2024: Sabbath
IN
2/11 & 2/18/2024: Fasting
2/25 & 3/3/2024: Contemplation
OUT
3/10 & 3/17/2024: Service
3/24 & 4/7/2024: Witness
WITH
4/14 & 4/21/2024: Community
4/28 & 5/5/2024: Generosity
5/12 & 5/19/2024: Summary - Formation as Prayer
Let’s prepare our hearts, and get ready to dive into the text, together! Use the link below to download a PDF of our study notes for the week, do the study on your own (as you have time, or with your TABLE Group), and then be sure to join us for GATHERING at 10:00am, on 1st and 3rd Sundays.
Blessings upon your time in the Word, this week.