The Simplest Way to Change the World

by Dustin Willis
The Simplest Way to Change the World
Author: Dustin Willis
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802495117
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How to make disciples using hospitality Deep down, every Christian wants to make a difference. But for many of us, the years come and go and we never do. The good news is: change can be as simple as opening your front door. The Simplest Way to Change the World is about biblical hospitality and its power for the gospel. Since people will sooner enter a living room than a church, hospitality is a natural and effective way to build relationships for Christ. You’ll learn: How the home can be a hub for community How hospitality leads to joy, purpose, and belonging How it grows families to love the things of God How it’s not about being the perfect host How to be hospitable regardless of your living space Hospitality is a beautiful legacy of the church, and a great way to make disciples. As you open your life up to others, you share in the very character of God and experience His joy. And you get to witness lives change—including your own. Includes 20+ creative ideas for hospitality, plus questions for small groups

Just Open the Door

by Jen Schmidt
Just Open the Door
Author: Jen Schmidt
Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-04
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9781462779925
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Hospitality is one of the best ways to live out the two greatest commandments: loving God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself. But often we get caught up in perfecting our homes and conversations before we open our doors. Over 7 sessions, look to Jesus as your model for hospitality. Discover how He lived a life full of interruptions, yet always welcomed people and invited them to follow Him. Learn to replace cultural expectations with biblical hospitality to create a legacy of invitation and reflect Jesus through simple acts of service. Features: Leader helps to guide questions and discussions within small groups Personal study segments with homework to complete between 7 weeks of group sessions Interactive teaching videos, approximately 25-30 minutes per session, available on DVD and via digital download The Bible study book Thirty-three free study resources, including the books the author used in preparation for this study Promotional tools, including a sample chapter, poster, bulletin insert, PowerPoint slide, and more Benefits: Replace cultural expectations with biblical hospitality to create a legacy of invitation. Discover daily rhythms of kindness, generosity, and presence at home and on the go. Learn to view welcome as worship, and reflect Jesus through simple acts of service. Become a woman of influence through hidden hospitality. Create spaces of welcome in your heart, home, and beyond.

Making Room

by Chistine D. Pohl
Making Room
Author: Chistine D. Pohl
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1999-08-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802844316
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For most of church history, hospitality was central to Christian identity. Yet our generation knows little about this rich, life-giving practice.

The Gospel Comes with a House Key

by Rosaria Butterfield
The Gospel Comes with a House Key
Author: Rosaria Butterfield
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-04-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433557894
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What did God use to draw a radical, committed unbeliever to himself? Did God take her to an evangelistic rally? Or, since she had her doctorate in literature, did he use something in print? No, God used an invitation to dinner in a modest home, from a humble couple who lived out the gospel daily, simply, and authentically. With this story of her conversion as a backdrop, Rosaria Butterfield invites us into her home to show us how God can use this same "radical, ordinary hospitality" to bring the gospel to our lost friends and neighbors. Such hospitality sees our homes as not our own, but as God's tools for the furtherance of his kingdom as we welcome those who look, think, believe, and act differently from us into our everyday, sometimes messy lives—helping them see what true Christian faith really looks like.

Biblical Hospitality

by Steve Durand
Biblical Hospitality
Author: Steve Durand
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2020-02-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781659149180
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When it comes to hospitality, we usually think about a gracious host or hostess inviting friends or family into their home; sharing a nice meal in a warm, comfortable atmosphere. That is cultural hospitality. And it can be wonderful, even in its simplest form. But if that's as far as your hospitality goes, you are not practicing biblical hospitality. Biblical hospitality calls us to be aware of, and to reach out to, strangers in need, both within the church and in the world around us. Treating strangers as we would instinctively treat our family and friends. Showing them genuine Christ-like love and friendship. Meeting their needs when we are able. That is the focus of this 40-day study in Biblical Hospitality.

Saved by Faith and Hospitality

by Joshua W. Jipp
Saved by Faith and Hospitality
Author: Joshua W. Jipp
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467448737
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Too few Christians today, says Joshua Jipp, understand hospitality to strangers and the marginalized as an essential part of the church's identity. In this book Jipp argues that God's relationship to his people is fundamentally an act of hospitality to strangers, and that divine and human hospitality together are thus at the very heart of Christian faith. Jipp first provides a thorough interpretation of the major biblical texts related to the practice of hospitality to strangers, considering especially how these texts portray Christ as the divine host who extends God's welcome to all people. Jipp then invites readers to consider how God's hospitality sets the pattern for human hospitality, offering suggestions on how the practice of welcoming strangers can guide the church in its engagement with current social challenges—immigration, incarceration, racism, and more.

The Hospitality Commands

by Alexander Strauch
The Hospitality Commands
Author: Alexander Strauch
Publisher: Lewis & Roth Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780936083094
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Hospitality plays crucial roles in encouraging unity, evangelism, and many spiritual gifts in the local church. Strauch shows the Scripture's teaching along with practical hints that he and his wife have learned over the years.

Practicing Hospitality

by Pat Ennis
Practicing Hospitality
Author: Pat Ennis
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2008-01-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433520982
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What makes a person or a home hospitable? Does hospitality call for a beautifully decorated home and a menu filled with gourmet foods, or can it be as simple as offering a friend a cup of tea? In Practicing Hospitality two longtime professors (and practitioners!) of home economics provide both the theological base and the practical knowledge to understand and implement God's plan for hospitality. They provide a blend of theologically sound content, real-life illustrations, and practical application. They focus on developing both the Christian character and practical skills so the act of hospitality is a joy for the host and hostess and a source of encouragement for the guest. Each chapter concludes with recipes and projects that provide readers with an opportunity to personally apply the book's content. Anyone seeking to grow in their knowledge of biblical hospitality will be richly rewarded by the biblical teaching and practical suggestions in this book.

Exclusion & Embrace

by Miroslav Volf
Exclusion & Embrace
Author: Miroslav Volf
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426712332
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Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion. Increasingly we see that exclusion has become the primary sin, skewing our perceptions of reality and causing us to react out of fear and anger to all those who are not within our (ever-narrowing) circle. In light of this, Christians must learn that salvation comes, not only as we are reconciled to God, and not only as we "learn to live with one another", but as we take the dangerous and costly step of opening ourselves to the other, of enfolding him or her in the same embrace with which we have been enfolded by God.