“What if I told you that a new movement of God is afoot…a movement called Dinner Church at which people gather around a meal and have a conversation as they remember Jesus and celebrate their part in God’s family?” - Mike Graves
Church around a table, not a stage.
The church as we know it today has only existed for roughly 500 years, but church around a table - around a shared meal, the stories of Jesus, and spiritual conversation - has existed for 2000+.
For the stranger
Food brings people together, all kinds of people. This is the genius of the Jesus table. An agape feast can bring rich and underresourced, educated and undereducated, black white, and all other ethnic or racial backgrounds around one table, in the presence of Jesus. Jesus tables bring strangers together, his presence joins them as neighbors and friends and ushers them into the family of God. Early Christians where known for their radical hospitality (stranger-love), Jesus table is a tangle expression of that first call.
Simple and reproducible
Planting a new church these days takes an increasing amount of money, volunteer core, and narrow skill set and personality type in a leader. The task has become insurmountable for most. launching a Jesus table offers a much simpler, more sustainable, and accessible approach for everyday people with a pastor's heart to launch a new church.