{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Table Talk","title":"Why We’re Here","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3230,"description":"The Sunday morning gathering that became a symbol of our faith — and why we decided to keep the conversation going.\nIn this pilot episode, Jacob and Sam tell the origin story of Table Talk: how it began as an anti-event at the church where they both worked, why they kept pulling up chairs long after the church-staff chapter ended, and what they mean when they say faithful curiosity.\nThey share some questions still alive for them, introduce the quilting metaphor that runs through everything they do, and ground the whole project in two verses held in creative tension — Galatians 5:6 and Proverbs 25:2.\nLess explaining, more exploring. Pull up a chair.\nCHAPTERS\n00:00 Intro\n00:37 Cold open\n02:08 Welcome to Table Talk\n04:09 How Table Talk began\n10:23 Curiosity over answers\n13:36 The table becomes a lab\n15:49 Jacob’s mystery: prayer\n17:24 Sam’s mystery: spiritual beings\n20:29 Faithful curiosity as a banner\n24:00 Is this deconstruction?\n29:30 The quilting metaphor\n37:21 Two verses, one framework\n46:00 The royal vocation of curiosity\n51:44 Pulling up chairs\nSCRIPTURE\nGalatians 5:6 — “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.”\nProverbs 25:2 — “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.”\nMatthew 5–7 — The Sermon on the Mount — the Kingdom Manifesto series the original Table Talk grew out of\nMatthew 7:7 — “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”\nMatthew 6 — Jesus teaching the disciples to pray\nMark 2:27 — “Then he said to them, ‘The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.’”\nGenesis 1 & Psalm 8 — Image-bearing and humanity’s royal vocation\nJob 1–2 — The divine council scene\nScripture quotations from the NIV®.\nMENTIONED\nJiddu Krishnamurti\nBrian McLaren — Faith After Doubt\nLISTEN\nhttps://tabletalk.fm/episodes/01-why-were-here\nYouTube:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GxyBpOzqtYLOqf6Gvq8KxggZ4WE-J0JweMhBWAH5M0I/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xOTgz/MTBhNGRjYWQzYTQz/MDU3MzIzODk3MzUy/MzQ3Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}