Tables : the common denominator. A CHARACTERISTIC OR ATTITUDE THAT IS SHARED BY ALL MEMBERS OF A GROUP OR PEOPLE.
OUR HOPE is TO INSPIRE the world with A DESIRE TO SEE JESUS’ PRAYER FOR UNITY BECOME A VISIBLE REALITY. AS HUMANS WE SHARE A NUMBER OF COMMON DENOMINATORS: Among them THE EARTH as OUR shared HOME, THE NEED FOR FOOD AND SHELTER AND THE INEVITABLE REALITY OF DEATH. THE TABLE REPRESENTS OUR mutual NEED FOR SUSTAINING OUR NATURAL LIFE. COMING TOGETHER AROUND THE TABLE AFFORDs US THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT ASIDE THE MANY THINGS THAT SEPARATE US and ENCOUNTER EACH OTHER AS EQUALS. INVITING PEOPLE to SHARE A MEAL and listening to each other’s life journey provides an OPPORTUNITY FOR FRIENDSHIPS TO FORM. AS WE PARTAKE OF WHAT SUSTAINS OUR NATURAL LIFE, WE CAN SPEAK OF WHAT SUSTAINS OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE. WE ARE RELATIONAL BEINGS CREATED BY A RELATIONAL GOD. THOUGH WE ARE DIFFERENT IN GENDER, RACE, CULTURE, GENERATION, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS views, OUR DEEPEST JOYS AND SORROWS COME FROM OUR RELATIONSHIPS. THis IS spiritually COMMON to all of us JUST AS FOOD AND WATER IS OUR NATURAL common DENOMINATOR.
IMAGINE A GLOBAL NETWORK OF TABLES THAT ARE HELD TOGETHER BY JESUS’ PRAYER FOR HIS FOLLOWERS TO ‘BE ONE’ BECOMING AN ACTUAL VISIBLE REALITY. THESE TABLES ARE A PLACE WHERE NEIGHBORS, FRIENDS, CO-WORKERS AND BELIEVERS FROM DIVERSE CHURCHES CAN SHARE JESUS’ MESSAGE OF RELATIONAL UNITY RATHER THAN UNIFORMITY.
EACH TABLE BECOMES THE PLATFORM WHERE THE BARRIERS FORMED BY THE BIASES OF CULTURE, DENOMINATIONS, POLITICS, RACE AND GENDER YIELD TO THE UNITING PRESENCE OF JESUS. AT THE TABLE WHERE WE SHARE OUR FOOD THERE IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO NARROW OUR DIVIDES BY REPLACING PARTISANSHIP WITH FRIENDSHIPS.
THESE PLACES OF CONNECTION BECOME THE STAGE FOR JOYFUL RELATIONSHIPS FOR OUR HURTING WORLD.
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