My Story - A reflection at Open Table #lgbtqia+ #comeasyouare
by Paul Newbery of the Open Table Liverpool community
Reading: Matthew 14: 22-33

Journeys are always a difficult thing. Where do we start from and certainly where are we going to end up. The secular world consider death to be the end of the journey. Birth the start, some fun in the middle and then an end. As Christians our birth is certainly the start. Death though isn’t the end, just a waypoint on our travel to Gods house, or Heaven.

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My Story - A reflection at Open Table #lgbtqia+ #comeasyouare
by an anonymous member of the Open Table Liverpool community on Sunday 6th June 2021

I heard the Parable of the Sower multiple times as a child, and never really understood it. When I was writing my story the share with Open Table, I started to see parts of the parable played out in my life and my journey with my faith.

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by the Revd Dr Louis Johnson on Sunday 20th June 2021 for Open Table Liverpool’s 13th Anniversary

Reading: Mark 4.35-41

Good evening. It’s a real pleasure and a privilege to be with you all to share in this act of worship, and to be celebrating Holy Communion with the Open Table community for the first time. Our reading from Mark’s gospel presents us with one of the iconic images of Jesus in scripture, stilling the storm whilst all around him the disciples are losing their heads in panic

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by the Revd Louis Johnson on Sunday 17th January 2021

Reading:Matthew 8.5-13

Hello everyone, it’s a pleasure and a privilege to join you this evening, and I’d like to begin by thanking Open Table for asking me to come and speak, it feels like a real honour, and I’ve been so excited at the prospect of being here with you.

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Yve Taylor shares her story of being #FaithfullyLGBT at Open Table Liverpool January 3rd 2021

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This Psalm was written for our Open Table service for All Saints Day, 1st Nov 2020, by community member Zach Ford

And there is no limit to the Lord’s memory.
It traces your each atom from end to end of Time,
Every one the more beloved,
Because what they make is you.

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Tonight, as we recall our trans siblings who have died in the past year, many in violent circumstances, it is fitting that we celebrate the Eucharist, in the hope that Christ will transform our poor bodies that they may become like his glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby he will gather up all things into the orbit of his mercy and love.

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Reflection by Revd Laura Ferguson, Team Vicar, on Matthew 22.15-22

Ultimatums are tricky aren’t they. Just two choices lying before you; the high road or the low road? The wide path or the narrow. Fight or flight? It seems like whether in Jesus’ time or today, there will always be people who try to enforce binaries.

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Every year Open Table our LGBTQIA+ worship community celebrates National Coming Out Day in their October Communion service. As part of our celebration we’ll use this wonderful Litany of Coming Out, adapted from Courage to Love: Liturgies for the LGBT Community by Geoffrey Duncan.

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Reflection by Warren Hartley, LGBTQIA+ Ministry Facilitator, on Matthew 18:15-20

‘Let’s challenge the church, call out its sins to our community and to us as individuals. We too are the part of the body of Christ and He is present with us now as we gather.’

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