Comments on: Dinner Church, anyone?

By: Sula Anne KOsacky

Sula Anne KOsacky — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:29:22 +0000

I often say in sermons that Jesus was among other things, a semi-professional dinner guest.

By: Jackie Stopp

Jackie Stopp — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:06:00 +0000

We do Breakfast Church every Sunday here in Lewes, UK, Sharing breakfast together builds friendships and community and it’s a nice relaxed welcome for newcomers, whom we get to know much more quickly as we eat together for half an hour around tables in the actual sanctuary. We then have a 5 minute talk ( accessible for non-churched folk) a song and a short prayer, then a very quick tidy up – one or two people leave at that point, one or two others arrive at that point – so there is flexibility. Then we have more worship, prayer and a sermon ( still sitting/standing around tables) followed by discussion and response to the sermon around the tables -which has deepened the fellowship and means that non-churched or young Christians get to hear testimonies around the table of older/ more mature Christians. Then, like one big family, we all clear away together afterwards – no rotas. We love it and the church has grown in numbers and in diversity and the Sunday school has grown too.

By: Heather Evans

Heather Evans — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 21:42:49 +0000

In reply to Blake. Dinner Church is so much more than what you have dismissed it to be. What a shame.

By: J.D. Larson

J.D. Larson — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:01:36 +0000

In reply to Blake.

Our church became a dinner church this summer and it’s been amazing! We love it. It’s the fullest expression of loving our neighbors we’ve discovered in our two year planting journey. We went from a hand full of people coming to our regular worship gatherings (all Christians) to over 80 people weekly eating around our tables (in 3 months, usually 20-30% non church people) We’re in minneapolis if you want to join in what God is doing. http://www.northcitychurchmpls.com

By: Oliver Lutz

Oliver Lutz — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 15:08:23 +0000

Yes, we do successfully Dinner Church also in Switzerland!

By: David Thompson

David Thompson — Fri, 29 May 2020 07:20:45 +0000

No, this is not a ‘fad’. Rural traditional congregations, where I have spent most of my ministry are famous for their hospitality, but very few have ever made the connection between food and drink
and hospitality being ‘church’. I see this approach as opening windows into our local communities because for them, this is so different and challenges coventional ideas of what faith is all about.

By: Michael Frost

Michael Frost — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:15:34 +0000

In reply to Heather A Evans. Awesome!!

By: Heather A Evans

Heather A Evans — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:47:24 +0000

We’ve been facilitating dinner church called Eat Pray Love in a blighted community in Southwest Florida since 2016 and have had an incredible journey. We have seen lonely people find friendship, community and purpose. We have seen lost people come into relationship with Jesus, and we’ve seen broken lives transformed. Dinner church is a beautiful thing—especially for the nones and dones of this world who dwell in the neighborhoods that nobody else wants or sees.

By: David Mahan

David Mahan — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:24:46 +0000

Well hello! New to the tribe having been introduced by a Facebook Aussie friend and reading everything posted about “Dinner Church” I’m desperate to understand the interest in such things as liturgy and “lectionary”

We want very much to keep our grand daughter in the Lutherean school she is. For thoughtful preaching we’ve heard would attend but cant’t choke down the liturgical worship.

It seems to me that structured worship removes the free wheeling forensic sorts of things that go on in a format such as Mike Frost blogging.

By: Sue E Hull

Sue E Hull — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:31:07 +0000

In reply to Robin G. Jordan. Oh my! What a great idea!