At a potluck, nobody’s dish is the main course. The whole table is. Church works best like that.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Nothing on the table is the centrepiece and that is the point. Every dish is partial, nobody brought a whole meal, and the sufficiency comes from the lot of it sitting next to each other. Groups work the same way when they are healthy. The trouble starts when somebody decides they have to be the main course, either because they want the credit or because they cannot bear to rely on anybody.

Bring your part this week and let it be incomplete. Then eat what somebody else brought rather than only what you contributed.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which group are you part of where no single person is central?

MORE IN FAITH, GRACE & PURPOSE

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.