Table Church 5

Another evening of Table Church brought some more new things. To begin with, we held the met ting at new venue for the first time. In order for Sean and Becky to join us we were invited to their house. This brought the number in the group up to eight.

I decided to allow the conversation to develop as was natural without resorting to an icebreaker, in order to put the new members at their ease. Later on we all shared in an exercise to do with brokenness. I took along a range of broken tile pieces and asked people to take as many as they liked. We then sat with these pieces and brought to mind the broken areas of our lives. Finally we laid the pieces around the cross to form a mosaic. The intention being to show how God is able to use our brokenness to form something new and beautiful when it shared with others.

Some interesting things happened during this activity. Some people wanted to move the pieces because they were not in the right place (in their view) others only wanted to place one piece, some placed their tiles on the very edge of the mosaic and then there was all the pieces that were not chosen and placed. This led to to a discussion about the nature of the church and our part in it and also about those who were left out in some way. This was perhaps the most interesting discussion so far and the most missional.