The Table is Set - Entering the Table of Communion

Before we ever thought about sitting down with Jesus, He had already prepared a table.

Before we ever knew we were hungry, He was setting the place. Before we even realized we were broken, He was breaking the bread. The Table of Communion is not about our worthiness—it’s about His invitation. It’s the first of the four core tables in our Table, Tribe, Team, Tent framework, and without it, the rest of the framework doesn’t work.

This is not a side dish in your walk with Christ—this is the meal that transforms everything else.

The Table of Encounter, Exchange, and Alignment

Too often, when people think of “communion,” they reduce it to a sacrament—a piece of bread, a sip of juice, a Sunday tradition. But in the Kingdom, communion is not ritual; it is relational exchange. It’s the place where your life collides with His sacrifice and your identity is restored in the process.

At this table, Jesus says to you what He said to His disciples:

“This is My body, broken for you… This is My blood, poured out…”
(1 Corinthians 11:24–25)

These are not poetic metaphors. They are a summons into intimacy. Jesus is not offering a snack—He’s offering Himself. He’s saying, “Come eat of Me. Take Me in fully. Let My life be your life.”

That is the mystery of communion: it's where the Great Exchange begins.

• Your shame for His righteousness
• Your striving for His rest
• Your wounds for His wholeness
• Your past for His future

The Table is a Threshold

When Jesus instituted communion at the Last Supper, He wasn’t just wrapping up a Passover meal—He was opening the door to a Kingdom reality. He was giving His disciples a pattern that would outlast the cross, survive the grave, and multiply through generations.

That same table still stands today.

But let me be clear: you don’t approach this table casually.

The Table of Communion is a threshold. It’s where you leave behind the old version of yourself and cross into newness of life. Paul warns in 1 Corinthians 11:28 that we must “examine ourselves” before partaking—because this is not just bread and wine. This is covenant. This is alignment. This is transformation.

And here’s what I’ve learned: transformation never happens where Jesus isn’t at the head.

Jesus Sets the Table—Not You

I want to challenge a mindset we’ve seen creep into the Body—this idea that we come to Jesus on our terms. That we pick our seat, set our pace, choose our meal.

But listen—Jesus is not your guest. He is the Host.

You don’t seat Him. He seats you.
You don’t serve Him a menu. He is the menu.

Psalm 23:5 says, “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” Think about that. He prepares it. Not us. He decides what’s served and when. And the most powerful part? He invites us to sit and eat in places we thought we could only run from. Because when Jesus is at the head, even a battlefield becomes a dining room.

So if we’re going to sit at this table, we need to come surrendered.
Hungry.
Available.

The Table of Communion is not a place for spectators—it’s a place for the submitted. The ones who are willing to be undone so that Jesus can do a deeper work within them.

Why This Table Comes First

In the Table, Tribe, Team, Tent framework, we start here because everything else flows from this place.

You cannot find true unity in Tribe until you’ve found true union with Christ at the Table.
You cannot function in Team until your function has been crucified at the Table.
You cannot carry His presence in the Tent until you’ve been filled with Him at the Table.

The Table is where the journey begins—not with a title or task, but with a tear in your eye and a hand on the bread. With the words: “Jesus, I receive.”

This is the discipleship we’ve been missing.
Not a program.
Not a curriculum.
But a Table.

A Table with only one head.
A Table that never runs out of grace.
A Table where He’s already waiting.

So What Do You Do Now?

Come.
Sit down.
Bring your whole heart.

And ask yourself:

• What do I need to lay down today?
• Where am I still performing instead of receiving?
• Have I truly let Jesus host this table—or have I tried to control it myself?

Let the Table of Communion reset your heart, reframe your story, and release you into the kind of transformation you can’t manufacture—only encounter.

The Table is set.
The bread is broken.
The Head is present.

Now come eat—and be made whole.