Table Communities
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Getting Started
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Some first steps as you begin as a group, key items and bits of vision
As you start out as a leader it’s important that you go through the safe recruitment process outlined below. As your group gets going, you need to be aware of our Table Community safeguarding guidance, adopt a template Risk Assessment, and share the relevant info from these with your group.
Recruitment Process
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Safeguarding
Family Around The Table
Jesus chose to convey his message not by writing a book but by instituting a family that would embody it. And more often than not, the place where he initiated people into his family and showed them how to inhabit it, was around the table. The biblical describes a God who longs to adopt his wayward children back into family; it’s the primary metaphor used to describe the church in the New Testament, which culminates in a huge reunion feast! When we practise being family around the table we witness to Jesus’ in-breaking kingdom and invite others to participate in it with us.
Some practices to help you grow as family together:
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Organic as well as organised
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The Community Practise from Practising The Way is a four session.
Pursuing His Healing Love and Saving Power
When we invite the hungry and hurting to join us at the table, we want to offer them the presence of Jesus. We learn to host and feast on his presence together through confession and repentance, through prayer, worship and fasting. As we come to him in our weakness and make room for his leadership, we grow in freedom and authority as he works in power to redeem us. As we set aside our masks and choose to be real with one another in God’s presence, we experience healing as we discover that we can be both fully known and deeply loved.
Practices to help you pursue his presence together:
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The Community Practise from Practising The Way is a four session.
Cultivating Missional Hearts
Jesus taught his disciples that they would be fruitful when they chose to stay close to him and the things that were important to him, and he had a reputation for eating and drinking with sinners, for prioritising the last, the least and the lost. As our own hearts and minds are transformed by his love and power, we want to cultivate a desire to share it with our neighbours in this hurting world out of overflow. Through prayer and discipline we want to grow into those who would seek his kingdom above all else, always asking how he wants us to participate in his movement of love towards a hurting world.
Practices to help your group to cultivate missional hearts:
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The Witness Practise from Practising The Way is a four session.
Being Sent Together
Jesus made and matured disciples around the table and he sent them to go and do the same. As disciples, we are placed in God’s family, yet we are also sent out—to serve the least and seek the lost with sacrificial love. Together, we want to prayerfully discern who God is sending us to, then to hold them in our hearts in prayer, to invest time, resource and creativity into befriending and serving them, and to invite them to join us at the table so that they might also experience his love and power.
Practices to help as you’re sent together:
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The Community Practise from Practising The Way is a four session.
Keep Exploring …
These organisations all provide resources to equip families of missional disciples …
And here’s a few more books that could spark inspiration and act as a guide …
