Most of us are lonelier than we’re willing to admit — and we’re not telling anyone about it.

This sermon is about the most ordinary thing in the world: a table. A meal. It turns out that simple thing might be the answer to something much larger.

Drawing from the story of Jesus eating with the people no one else would eat with (Luke 5), Acts 2, the neuroscience of bonding, and a Van Gogh painting about Belgian coal miners — this sermon makes the case that God has always worked through ordinary tables. From the first meal in Genesis to the final feast in Revelation, the table isn’t incidental to the story. It is the story.

You’ll wrestle with why belonging still feels so dangerous even when you want it. You’ll encounter a Jesus who doesn’t wait until you’re ready to pull up a chair. And you might leave with one idea that changes how you think about every meal you eat for the next 70 days.

Jesus keeps setting the table. The question: what are we going to do?