A review by pettydus
A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community by John Pavlovitz

5.0

“Friend, the heart of the bigger table is the realization that we don’t have to share someone’s experience to respect their road. As we move beyond the lazy theology and easy caricatures that seek to remove any grey from people’s lives, we can meet them in that greyness, right where they are, without demanding that they become something else in order to earn proximity to us or to a God who loves them dearly. Just as was true in the life and ministry of Jesus, real love is not contingent upon alteration: it simply is. There is no earning of fellowship or deserving of closeness; there is only the invitation itself and the joy that comes when you are fully seen and heard.”

Beautiful treatise that challenges me to embrace radical hospitality, total authenticity, true diversity, and an agenda-free community. Christian friends that are seeking to build bigger tables instead of walls, check this out. Happy to share if you’re willing to forgive my highlighting.