I want you to think about your dinner table for a moment. No, not to make you hungry during worship!  But think about what it looks like, who is there, where it is, and where you are at the table. What is your place? Who is sitting at the head? Who is talking the most? Who is silent? Who is serving? Who cooked the meal? Who is on the periphery? Who is in charge?

You see, we all have “table dynamics.” We have power and position dynamics in our families, as well as in our churches and in our culture. And we can get a hint of what those dynamics look like by examining our dinner table.

Inevitably, we all fall on a scale of “givers” and “takers.” Some of us are primarily givers, the ones serving and doing everything silently in the background.  Others is us are takers, dominating the convers…