LifeGroups

At the Table // Week 2

1. How do you typically experience community around your table (home, work, church, etc.)?
2. How easy or difficult is it for you to extend grace to someone who has hurt or disappointed you? Can you think of a time when you received unexpected grace from someone? How did that impact you?
3. Jesus looked at the rich young ruler with love before speaking truth. Why do you think this is emphasized? In your relationships, do people feel both loved and challenged? Which one comes more naturally to you? How can we better reflect Jesus by speaking truth in love at our own tables?
4. Jesus consistently pointed people to what truly matters. When others sit at your table, would they know what matters most to you? Why or why not?
5. Jesus says, “I came not for the healthy, but for the sick.” Why is it important for us to remember this when we consider who we invite to our tables? How can your table be more open—like Matthew’s courtyard—so others can experience mercy and belonging?
6. How can you intentionally reflect grace, truth, and what matters in your home or relationships this week?
7. What does your physical and spiritual table look like? Who’s there—and who might be missing? Close by reading Matthew 9:12–13 again. How does this passage challenge or comfort you personally?

At the Table // Week 1

1. When you think about meals in your own life, what do they represent—routine, connection, celebration, or something else? Can you recall a meal that had a spiritual or relational impact on you? What made it meaningful?
2. Read Acts 10:9–19. Why do you think Peter struggled with the vision God gave him? How would you have responded in his place? Why do you think it was such a big deal for Peter to eat with Gentiles? What does that tell us about the social or religious boundaries of that time?
3. Read Isaiah 25:6–8. God promises a feast for all nations. How does this prophecy connect to what happens in Acts 10?
4. The sermon said that “meals are more than food—they’re about welcome, friendship, and community.” How have you seen that to be true in your life or church?
5. Peter’s willingness to sit at a Gentile’s table was a radical act of obedience. What does it look like today to “cross the table” in obedience to God?
6. Are there “tables” in your life where you feel God might be calling you to extend welcome to someone different from you?
7. Who is someone you can invite to your “table” this week—literally or metaphorically—who might need to experience the grace of Jesus?