The church of many tables

What might it mean for the church if we understand ourselves to be a community of smaller communities engaged in the mission of God in the world? This is the question that Pastor Phil Kniss posed on Sunday morning. If worship of God is at the center of our calling as Christians, how do we engage that worship in the context of our small groups? Why is communion only a part of  our large group gatherings? In looking at the early church as described in Acts 2:42-47 and 1 Corinthians 10:15-17, Pastor Phil notes that these were groups that gathered around tables to worship, learn, and eat together. Perhaps we need to re-imagine our gatherings in small groups and use those times to worship and even to consider our eating together as a form of communion.