Open Table Community
Evangelical Free Church
2605 Chamblee-Tucker Rd
Chamblee, GA 30341
Office: 770.451.2220
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Our Passion
Our Passion is Mission. Our Mission is Compassion.
Our focus is to equip people to take Christ’s love into their homes, neighborhoods, workplaces, and among those with special needs to whom the LORD directs us. It’s about his mission of redemption, love, and relationship, and the unique expression of his love that every person is called to reveal.
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Our Values
At Open Table Community, we strive to live our lives individually and as a community according to the following values:
- Do Love
- Be Biblical
- Be Missional
- Be Inclusive
- Spiritual Formation: Morphing, Molding, and Moving
- Plant Healthy Churches
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Our Priorities
Our communal priorities for the next five years are:
- Child Focus
- Community Development
- Healthy Church Life
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Our Pathways for Making Disciples
We view the process of growing in faith in six milestones:
- Discovering Passion
- Grounding Passion
- Nurturing Passion
- Releasing Passion
- Building Able Leaders
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The EFCA and Our Statement of Faith
Most folks in the south are unfamiliar with the Evangelical Free Church of America, even though many are familiar with the radio and publishing ministry of Chuck Swindol, the best known EFCA pastor.
The EFCA is a movement of local, autonomous churches around the world. Rather than setting out comprehensive doctrinal statement that tries to cover everything, the EFCA focuses on a few central ideas which define our orthodoxy leaving secondary or disputable areas up to the individual and communal conscience. In other words, we look for places of agreement among believers.
In a nutshell, “evangelical” means that we live out and share our love for the Lord Jesus Christ according the scriptures (which we consider authoritative for every aspect of our lives and faith). “Free” is the form of church government that split from the state churches (there is an oxymoron) of Sweden and Denmark, and believe that local congregations under the headship of Christ are sufficiently able to make their own decisions.
You can learn more about the denomination on the EFCA web site.
