The Table Church DC

(Class) Reading the Bible for Liberation - Session 5 - Cruciform and Liberation Lenses

In this session we put on two specific lens to read Scripture. The Cruciform lens and the Liberation lens. We then use these to take a look at two specific passages: Genesis 16 (the mistreatment of Hagar) and Mark 7 (the Syrophoenecian Woman). 

(Sermon) Let My People Go - Sabbath

Sunday, February 13, 2022. Preacher: Tonetta Landis-Aina. As we begin a new series on the book of Exodus, thinking about salvation and liberation, Pastor Tonetta grounds us in the most important part of any sort of work that will matter: REST.

(Class) Reading the Bible For Liberation - Session 4 - Everyone Has A Lens

In this session, we explore the different "interpretive" lenses we put on when we read Scripture

(Sermon) Jesus Confronts the Powers of Legion Part 2 (Mark 5:1-20)

Sunday, February 6, 2022. Pastor Tonetta continues our look into the story of Jesus and Legion. It's a story that lays the foundation of understanding why decolonizing is a deeply Jesus-centered work. 

(Class) Reading the Bible for Liberation - Session 3 - Dead People Do It Better

In this session we explore the ways that ancient Christians and other cultures have read Scripture. We talk about The Great Tradition (capital T), and also the great traditions (little t), and how they ought to influence the conclusions we come to when reading the Bible.

Class Notes here: https://www.craft.do/s/gCwpHcMBSYPKv6

(Sermon) Jesus Confronts the Powers of Legion (Mark 5:1-20)

Sunday, January 30, 2022. Preacher: Anthony Parrott. Every aspect of our society has both concrete and invisible realities that need to be named. Scripture calls these realities The Powers. Jesus heals us from The Powers that corrupt us and our world and sets us a mission to do the same.

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(Class) Reading the Bible for Liberation - Session 2 - Bible: The Origin Story

This week we explore the idea of inerrancy, where the Bible came from, and what are "the originals."

Full show notes here: https://www.craft.do/s/H4tK6utydxtize

(Sermon) Chosen Family (Mark 3:31-35)

Sunday, January 23, 2022. Preacher: Meg Clark. Jesus' family comes looking for him, thinking he has lost his mind. Jesus, like so many of us, is offered the opportunity to find a new kind of family, one that he is not born into, but chooses.