- food Christmas: “breakfa-lun-dinn-upper” Church: - fellowship What will we do? a) bowling b) film c) meal d) shooting e) rugby Christmas: - food “breakfa-lun-dinn-upper” Church: - fellowship - Alpha - the future - build it around a meal

= Table fellowship The Jesus Creed #4 - Table - for the Pharisees: loving God, loving others changes how we pray - to God / for others changes how we understand God’s Abba love changes how we understand society - society is created at the table - society can also be divided at the table - for the Pharisees: Table fellowship “...John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and “sinners”.’...” (Matthew 11.18-19) =

= G r a c e The Jesus Creed #4 - Table for Jesus: the table brings healing the table brings vision the table brings hope the church is to welcome people to Jesus’ table "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." (Mark 2.17) “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.” (Luke 19.9) “...many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast...” (Matthew 8.11)