Join us for worship and fellowship this coming Sunday, as we begin exploring the question of what it means to be a people of welcome with a message titled “The Welcome Table: On Creating Brave Space.”
“My question for us is this: what does it mean to be a people of the welcome table in an age of the wall? This is the question we will all face again and again in the years to come… In our resistance, we must not succumb to the temptations of self-righteousness. We must not succumb to the false belief that threats to the welcome table are solely external to us. Let us once and for all confess that the cultures of racism, patriarchy, xenophobia, and transphobia shape our souls too, even as we seek to resist them… The welcome table calls us now not only to ministries of resistance but also ministries of reconciliation...beginning with the people that are closest to us…and begin the conversation with your story…and invite their story with openness…”
~ Rob Hardies
“My question for us is this: what does it mean to be a people of the welcome table in an age of the wall? This is the question we will all face again and again in the years to come… In our resistance, we must not succumb to the temptations of self-righteousness. We must not succumb to the false belief that threats to the welcome table are solely external to us. Let us once and for all confess that the cultures of racism, patriarchy, xenophobia, and transphobia shape our souls too, even as we seek to resist them… The welcome table calls us now not only to ministries of resistance but also ministries of reconciliation...beginning with the people that are closest to us…and begin the conversation with your story…and invite their story with openness…”
~ Rob Hardies
