Making Space for People // The Table Discussion Questions - November 6, 2025

Core Questions:

1. What does the word hospitality mean to you—and how does it differ from how the Bible defines it?
2. How have you personally experienced God’s welcome through another person?
3. Why do you think hospitality was such a central part of Jesus’ ministry?
4. What stands out to you about the early church’s approach to community and inclusion?
5. How does making space for others shape your spiritual formation?

Deeper Dive Questions:

6. John Mark Comer says, “Formation is inevitable—the only question is into what.” How does practicing hospitality form us differently than the culture around us?

7. What are some ways modern culture pushes us toward isolation and self-protection? How can the table counteract that?

8. When have you felt resistance to opening your home, your life, or your schedule to others? What might that resistance reveal?

9. How is hospitality more about presence than perfection?

10. Jesus often welcomed people before they believed—how can we follow His example?

11. How do you see hospitality as a spiritual practice rather than just a social one?

12. Who is someone in your life you sense God prompting you to welcome this week? 

13. What would it look like to make Thursday nights part of your regular rhythm of formation? 

14. How could your table at home become an extension of what happens here on Thursday nights? 

15. In what ways does welcoming others make space for God to move in your own heart?