The Table Church DC

Easter Sunday 2024 - Invited To...Resurrection (Reprise)

Invited To...Death (Reprise)

Death can make us all uncomfortable. Grief can make us sad, angry, and frustrated. Those closest to Jesus abandoned and denied him at the time of His death. Even though He was dying for them. Jesus welcomed the grieving and spent time with them. Pastor Anthony explains how pushing past our own discomfort helps us grow closer to others and might just lead us to encounter Jesus.

Forgive Us: Christian Nationalism

Forgive Us: Anti-Semitism

Aligning with the our value of Revolutionary Justice, Daniel preaches about how we're called to turn away from anti-Semitism.

Forgive Us: Zionism

Pastor Anthony helps to explain the history of Christian Zionism and the connection and impact it still has today. This complex topic deserves our attention and care as we work to live out a more beautiful gospel.

Forgive Us: Christian Supremacy

Genesis 11: 1-9

 

Through the story of the Tower of Babel, Heidi helps to reveal human tendencies and the warnings we can take as we discuss the ideologies we’re stealing away from as a church. The Tower of Babel becomes a metaphor for the structures of supremacy that we build in a modern world. Heidi quotes Sam Killermann in giving examples of Christian privilege. Even if we don’t think about them, we can still benefit from the systems in our country where Christianity is embedded. 

 

Naming Christian supremacy requires us to confront our own relationship with power. Heidi then shows us how we can use this story to repair and make meaningful changes to dismantle the tower of Christian supremacy. God deliberately creates all the languages in the world which is a powerful image of God creating and celebrating diversity.

 

Sam Killermann’s Christian Privilege Checklist

https://projecthumanities.asu.edu/christian-privilege-checklist

Forgive Us: Repentance and Repair - Making Amends

As we enter the Lent season, Pastor Tonetta begins a new series, Forgive Us: Repentance and Repair.  The first sermon gives us practical instructions for making amends with those we have harmed, understanding that to grow in maturity in Christ we also need to grow in maturity in repentance. This topic can be hard because many have been taught that the underlying cause for repentance is sin. Learning to look at repentance as restorative and not punitive, Tonetta walks us through one framework for true repair with others.

 

1. Naming and owning harm

2. Starting to change

3. Restitution and accepting consequences

4. Apology

5. Making different choices

 

"If you believe that you can damage believe that you can fix. If you believe that you can damage believe that you can heal. If you believe that there is damage in our world believe that you can help repair it. And if you believe that there is damage in our world believe that our God is a God of healing and restoration." - Rebbe Nachman

Marks of A Liberating Church: Sankofa, Stay Woke

Tonetta continues the discussion around the qualities of a liberating church and guides us through the idea of sankofa - an Adinkra symbol in traditional Akan art which represents that “it is not taboo to go back and fetch what is at risk of being left behind.”

 

Discern together with Tonetta and members of the black affinity group, Lisa, Anselm, and Antonio, as they discuss intersections between sankofa and religion.