Part 5: The Welcome Table, October 19, 2025

Midway Christian Church sermon for October 19, 2025

Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, Midway Christian, Church, MidwayKY

Worship Series: The Welcome Table

The Table is a place of acceptance and belonging, a placewhere we center ourselves in the presence of God, a place where authentic, meaningful conversations and dialog can happen as we offer up our shared experiences. As Disciples of Christ, our theology and practice surrounding the Table is rooted in the examples Jesus shared during his ministry. He welcomed friends and strangers alike. He engaged in conversation with those who disagreed with him. He broke bread with the one who would betray him, the one whowould deny him and the ones who would abandon him. Every time Jesus gathered around the Table, he shared a vision of God’s Beloved Community with one and all.In this worship series, we reclaim this connection to God’s expansiveWelcome Table. We will explore the invitation to come to the Table, the challenge to stay at the Table and the call to build a bigger table for all of God’s people. And in doing so, we will begin to cultivate a way of community and connection that embraces God’s love, peace, grace and joy for all of God’speople.

Part 5: “Stay at the Table: Forgiveness”

Scripture: Matthew 18: 21-35

Staying at the table is not always easy. But instead of pointing fingers or feeling guilty because we know that more times than not, we have missed the mark on becoming people of love and grace, let us invite the parable to do what parables do best… to reframe our narrative, to open our eyes to the Kingdom of God in our midst, to broaden our perspective andgain wisdom as followers of Jesus Christ.

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