A ground-breaking discipleship practice for weekend services.
At Tables Church, we gather for weekend services where God's people meet around tables to practice Jesus' example of discipleship, contextualized for today's experiences.
Our leadership started with a vision of following the discipleship methods of Jesus. As each of us on our discipleship journeys sought the Lord, Jesus has been shaping our hearts to more deeply explore His ways. This led us to several observations about how Jesus made disciples:
- Jesus used a variety of learning tools. He used questions, dialogue, group interactions, eating together, and applying Scripture to life. Rarely did Jesus court crowds or give lecture-style sermons without group interaction.
- Jesus gave applications to individuals, because He interacted as he taught with the individuals. Though He did sometimes teach from a "stage", His focus always came back to knowing the individuals He was discipling.
- Jesus did discipleship in community. He picked people to work together, taught them together, and sent them out together. Discipleship didn't happen individually in rows, it was a corporate practice in circles. At Tables Church, community isn't an extra add-on, it's the default.
- Jesus' main focus was on developing the disciple-makers, initially His twelve. The teachings of crowds was for the purpose of modeling discipleship for the twelve, and then Jesus sent them out to practice the discipleship themselves. As we gather around tables, we are intentionally training disciple-makers who are being trained and commissioned to practice make disciples during our weekend services.
Join us as we love people like Jesus, form them into the image of Jesus, and commission them to do the work of Jesus.