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Hospitality
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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers,
for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares. Hebrews 132
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Contribute to the needs of the saints, practice
hospitality. Romans 1213
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Practice hospitality ungrudgingly to one another.
1Peter 49
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Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than
sixty years of age, having been the wife of one
husband and she must be well attested for her
good deeds, as one who has brought up children,
shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints,
relieved the afflicted, and devoted herself to
doing good in every way. 1Timothy 59-10
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"If the people who were in my tent had said, 'We
wish we had never filled our stomachs with his
food'....(The visitor never spent the night
outside, because I opened my door to the
traveller.) Job 3131-32
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Practice hospitality.Why? This is a worship
service, not a seminar on successful living. What
does hospitality have to do with God? If it
doesn't have to do with God, it is simply of no
interest in a church that aims to be God-centered
and God-saturated. The mark of a God-besotted
Christian is that you always answer the question
why you do something by referring to God as we
know him in Jesus Christ. John Piper
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"When a stranger sojourns with you in your land,
you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who
sojourns with you shall be to you as the native
among you, and you shall love him as yourself
for you were strangers in the land of Egypt I am
the LORD your God. Leviticus 1933-34
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Or here is another way to put it when we
practice hospitality we experience the thrill of
feeling God's power conquer our fears and our
stinginess and all the psychological gravity of
our self-centeredness. And there are few joys, if
any, greater than the joy of experiencing the
liberating power of God's hospitality making us a
new and radically different kind of people, who
love to reflect the glory of his grace as we
extend it to others in all kinds of
hospitality. John Piper
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• Christ and Hospitality
• Christ told parables of Gods hospitality (Luke
  1416-24)
• Christ was the ultimate expression of Gods
  hospitality
• Christ directed his apostles to expect
  hospitality (Mk. 68)
• Christ said it was an honour to show hospitality
  (Matt. 1040-42 2543!)

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Hospitality

• In the home
• Is an expression of Gods provision to another
• Is not to impress another about you, your house,
  your cooking, your family

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Hospitality

• In the church
• Is an expression of Gods care to others
• Is not to impress others about us, our
  facilities, our ministry, our numbers
• Helps us to die to ourselves and live to Christ