**Big Idea of the Series:** This four-week series looks at the great invitation of the gospel: to join the household of faith and become a child of God. Over the course of this series, congregants will be inspired not only to go deeper into their relationship with God but also to go and proclaim the good news to others.
**You belong at the table.**
Luke 22:1-16 NLT
The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is also called Passover, was approaching.The leading priests and teachers of religious law were plotting how to kill Jesus, but they were afraid of the people’s reaction.Then Satan entered into Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve disciplesand he went to the leading priests and captains of the Temple guard to discuss the best way to betray Jesus to them.They were delighted, and they promised to give him money.So he agreed and began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus so they could arrest him when the crowds weren’t around.Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread arrived, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed.Jesus sent Peter and John ahead and said, “Go and prepare the Passover meal, so we can eat it together.”“Where do you want us to prepare it?” they asked him.He replied, “As soon as you enter Jerusalem, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him. At the house he enterssay to the owner, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?’He will take you upstairs to a large room that is already set up. That is where you should prepare our meal.”They went off to the city and found everything just as Jesus had said, and they prepared the Passover meal there.When the time came, Jesus and the apostles sat down together at the table.Jesus said, “I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins.For I tell you now that I won’t eat this meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.”
John 13:1-5 NLT
Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.It was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God.So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waistand poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.
**John is at the table.**
John 13:23 NLT
The disciple Jesus loved was sitting next to Jesus at the table.
**Thomas is at the table.**
John 20:24-29 NLT
One of the twelve disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin), was not with the others when Jesus came.They told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he replied, “I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my fingers into them, and place my hand into the wound in his side.”Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. “Peace be with you,” he said.Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don’t be faithless any longer. Believe!”“My Lord and my God!” Thomas exclaimed.Then Jesus told him, “You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me."
**Peter is at the table.**
John 13:6-11 NLT
When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”Jesus replied, “You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.”“No,” Peter protested, “you will never ever wash my feet!” Jesus replied, “Unless I wash you, you won’t belong to me.”Simon Peter exclaimed, “Then wash my hands and head as well, Lord, not just my feet!”Jesus replied, “A person who has bathed all over does not need to wash, except for the feet, to be entirely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not all of you.”For Jesus knew who would betray him. That is what he meant when he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
John 13:38 NLT
Jesus answered, “Die for me? I tell you the truth, Peter—before the rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will deny three times that you even know me.
**Judas is at the table.**
John 17:12 NLT
During my time here, I protected them by the power of the name you gave me. I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold.
**You belong at the table.**