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Talk about home life at Mema’s and seeing hospitality played out growing up
Discuss an overview of this 3-week teaching series we’re starting with Hospitality 1) What is it?
2) How it relates to the Gospel 3) Practical application
Discuss the questions: What, Why, How, Where, When
What is Hospitality?
Introduction
hospitality - the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers
guest/visitor - a person who is invited to visit the home or take part in a function organized by another
stranger - a person whom one does not know or with whom one is not familiar
Hospitality in the ancient world focused on alien or strangers in need
Desperate
Lacked membership in the community
It mean graciously receiving an alienated person into one’s land
This was polymorphic
Talk about the
Sometimes it looked like the reception of travelers into one’s home for food, lodging, and protection
Talk about the hospitality during the Kholhepp case of Selma Baptist Church.
They were cooking burgers for the reporters
Example of this with Abraham in
Example of an elder in ,
Permitting the alienated person to harvest the corners of one’s field
Talk about Ruth study and reference here.
Use as reference here
Clothing the naked in
Tithing food for the needy ()
However, the hospitable act of the communal meal possesses great symbolic significance.
In the ancient world, to share food with someone was to share life
This holds even greater significance today with today’s distractions and “siloed” culture
Talk about social media dependence among Americans (use pew research sheet).
Talk about being an early adopter and how this can be dangerous.
Refer to ‘12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You’ by Tony Reinke
Talk about Buster’s reference to the unseized and the urgent
Such intimacy created a bond of fellowship
Jesus’ meal with tax collectors and sinners in
His meal with Zacchaeus
Lord’s Supper in
Common meal of the early Christians in
There is a biblical pattern of intimacy, fellowship, support, and love surrounding the concept of sharing a meal with one another
Ever shared a meal with someone and became even closer?
There is a biblical pattern of intimacy, fellowship, support, and love surrounding the concept of sharing a meal with one another
Anytime I talk about a topic, I see what Scripture says first THEN I contextualize it.
The contextualization does not negate the Biblical pattern.
Examples of ‘host’ and ‘guest’ throughout Scripture
Old Testament ->Israel as Guest.
God as Host
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God graciously received alienated Israelites and met their needs, redeeming them from Egypt and feeding and clothing them in the wilderness
We are exiles .
This is not our final home.
Technology has pushed back the effects of The Fall and has caused us to forget this sometimes
Old Testament -> Israel as Host.
and
This is the story of Lot.
When angels journeyed to Sodom and Gomorrah in search of a righteous man, only Lot and his family were set apart to be saved.
Lot was deemed righteous by the fact that he alone imitated Abraham’s behavior of hospitality
This was also commanded of Israel
New Testament -> Jesus as Guest
and
The itinerant ministry placed him in dependance on the hospitality of others
New Testament -> Jesus as Host
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Feeding the 5000 reveals the identity of Jesus as taking the role to host the multitude
He not only serves as host and directing a meal but becomes the meal itself
New Testament Church -> Christians as Guests
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We are alienated from God
We are invited to respond to Jesus in celebration of the Lord’s supper
Those who confess Jesus as Christ become aliens and strangers in this world
The audience of 1 Peter suffered social condemnation because of their Christian confession
New Testament Church -> Christians as Hosts
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Righteous behavior as outlined in the Old Testament still applies and it includes the act of hospitality
Hospitality -> Christian Love
Seeking God’s Will?
Start here
Exposition (Overview) of John’s Epistles
Author is the Apostle John
Describes himself as “the elder” to show his authority and eyewitness status (age)
Most personal letter of his 3 epistles is 3 John
1 John -> congregations scattered throughout Asia Minor
2 John -> sent to a lady and her family
3 John -> clearly identifies recipient as “the beloved Gaius”
2 John & 3 John deal with hospitality
2 John -> warns about showing hospitality to false teachers
There is a biblical pattern of intimacy, fellowship, support, and love surrounding the concept of sharing a meal with one another
3 John -> condemns the lack of hospitality shown to faithful ministers of the Word
They were refused hospitality by Diotrephes
Diotrephes also slandered the Apostle John
He excluded anyone from the church who dared to challenge him
Some think that he even favored the false teachers that were condemned in 2 John
3 John
I. Commendation Regarding Christian Hospitality ()
Truth is used 4 times in the greeting
The “truth” here includes the truth about Jesus coming in the flesh
Shows that true Christlike love is rooted in the Scriptures
Briefly discuss how we try to seek the Will of God without opening our Bibles
Opposing hospitality to those who walk under the Lordship of Christ is not “walking in truth”
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Condemnation Regarding Violating Christian Hospitality ()
This is the opposite of Christlike love being played out
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