In today’s cultural moment – marked by polarization, anxiety, fragmentation, and spiritual exhaustion – preaching does more than interpret Scripture. It forms a people. This workshop explores how sermons can move congregations toward the Eucharistic table as the culmination of worship, where Jesus is host and grace is received not only intellectually but bodily.

Together we consider how preaching helps cultivate a culture of safety: through tone, theological framing, and pastoral attentiveness from the opening words of the sermon to the breaking of bread. How does Jesus meet fear, failure, and confusion in Scripture? And how might our proclamation prepare a people to receive Christ faithfully at the table – embodying God’s hospitable, sanctifying grace in a divided age?