A Bigger Table, Expanded Edition with..., John Pavlovitz
A Bigger Table, Expanded Edition with..., John Pavlovitz
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A Bigger Table, Expanded Edition with Study Guide
Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community

Author: John Pavlovitz

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mission Audio

Published: 03/09/2021


Synopsis

A Bigger Table invites listeners to envision a church that is big enough for everyone, by holding up a mirror to the modern church and speaking clearly on issues at the heart of the Christian community: LGBT inclusion, gender equality, racial tensions, global concerns, and theological shifts. John Pavlovitz shares moving personal stories, his careful observations as a pastor, and his understanding of the ancient stories of Jesus to set the table for a new, positive, more loving conversation on these and other important matters of faith. Though there are many who would remove chairs and whittle down the guest list, we can build the bigger table Jesus imagined, practicing radical hospitality, total authenticity, messy diversity, and agenda-free community.

This new edition includes a small-group study guide complete with ideas for exploring A Bigger Table in a congregation-wide sermon series and program along with a new foreword by Jacqui Lewis and new afterword by the author to explore the challenges of living out the bigger table when voices of hate and exclusion seem stronger and louder than ever.

About John Pavlovitz

John Pavlovitz is a pastor and blogger from Wake Forest, North Carolina. In the past two years his blog, Stuff That Needs To Be Said, has reached a diverse audience of millions of people throughout the world, with an average monthly readership of over a million people. His home church, North Raleigh Community Church, is a growing, nontraditional Christian community dedicated to radical hospitality, mutual respect, and diversity of doctrine. John is a regular contributor to Huffington Post, Relevant Magazine, Scary Mommy, ChurchLeaders.com, and The Good Men Project.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ivonne

I adore John Pavlovitz, but I don’t know how to feel about A Bigger Table, Expanded Edition with Study Guide: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community. On the one hand, Pavlovitz directs us to the real Christ, the Jesus that ate with tax collectors and prostitutes, who preached to......more

Goodreads review by Bob

Summary: Traces the author’s journey into a bigger vision of and practice of Christian community that is far more inclusive in welcoming people and chronicles the stories of a bigger table and the lives it has touched. This is an expanded version of a book first published in 2017. John Pavlovitz is a......more

Goodreads review by Bryan

I recently received A Bigger Table in the mail as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program. I've been reading John Pavlovitz's blog for a couple years and find his work vital to living in our society. I finished the book concurrently with an earlier EarlyReviewer selection, Richard Blanco's How......more