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3. Acts 17

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6. Thy statutes are my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
Psalm 119:54
Thy statutes are my songs
In the house of my pilgrimage.
Hymns
Invitation
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7. Two Sides of Hospitality
Last week we discussed the need to avoid partiality. We need to engage all of our members; none should be left out or fall through the cracks
Hospitality is a powerful way we forge the bonds of family. It is not a work of the church, but of the members.

8. What Visitors Seek Love – Galatians 6:1 Work – Ephesians 4:12
Soundness – 2 Timothy 2:2
Sacrifice – Romans 12:1
Community – Acts 2:44-46
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, Ephesians 2:19
Love (Gal 6:1, etc)
(1) Do we Love the Lord, or give lip service
(2) Do we Love each other
Teaching (2 Tim 2:2)
(1) Doctrinally sound
(2) Desire to learn and to teach
Sacrifice (Rom 12:1)
(1) This goes to show how much we love, community
Evangelism (Eph 4:13)
(1) Are we about the Lord's work (all of the work of the church)
Community (Acts 2:44-46)
(1) How involved in each other's lives are we
(2) Is the assembly the only place we see one another?

9. Community is Revealed in Hospitality
Let love of the brethren continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it Hebrews 13:1-2

10. Community is Revealed in Hospitality
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaint Peter 4:8-9

11. Community is Revealed in Hospitality
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality Romans 12:10-13

12. Community is Revealed in Hospitality
“Community leaders” are qualified by being hospitable:
Titus 1:7-8 “the overseer must be .....hospitable”
1 Timothy 3:2 “An overseer, then, must be ...hospitable”

13. What is Hospitality?
In our language, it refers to “hosting” those in need
Hospice, Hospital – places of rest for the needy
In the New Testament, the word was Philoxenos: (brotherly) love of strangers
Hospitality is a work of Christians, NOT the church

14. What is Hospitality? Hebrews 13:2 – A reminder by two men
Abraham – Genesis 18:2-5
Lot – Genesis 19:1-3

15. What is Hospitality? What did Abraham and Lot do?
Ran to greet their visitors
Begged them to stay
Offered them the comfort of their home
Provided them sustenance

16. do WE do with visitors and members?
What is Hospitality?
What did Abraham and Lot do?
Ran to greet their visitors
Begged them to stay
Offered them the comfort of their home
Provided them sustenance
do WE do with visitors and members?

17. Growing Hospitality Grows Community
We desire to be a community:
Members have a great joy in participating
Visitors sense our affection for them and each other
The world covets membership
Becoming such requires MORE effort to hospitality
The church CANNOT do this work for us

18. The First Side of Hospitality
There is room to grow individually in hospitality
We need to run, beg, offer and provide:
To our visitors
EVEN MORE to our members
Some members do not get a sense that this is how we feel about visitors OR one another

19. The Other Side of Hospitality
Not all (of us) can “host”
ALL of us can receive hospitality

21. The Other Side of Hospitality
Luke 14:16-24
Consider the master’s displeasure
Consider the hurt feelings of one another
In the coming weeks there are opportunities to come together when brethren have offered hospitality
We wont announce these things in the church to avoid even appearing to do this work

22. Call to Action Understanding hospitality underlies community
THE CHURCH cannot do this work for us
Committing to growing our hospitality
SEEING OPPORTUNITY to grown ourselves
Committing to receiving hospitality
TO PARTICIPATE in any opportunity

24. The Hospitality of God Matthew 22:9
“Go therefore to the main highways,
and as many as you find there,
invite to the wedding feast”
Heb 12:1 ¶ Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

25. Matthew 22:11-13
But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes, and he said to him, “Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?” And the man was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, “Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness….”
Heb 12:1 ¶ Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

26. All things are ready; Come To The Feast!
Hear the word and believe – Romans 10:17 Confess Jesus as Lord – Matthew 10:32 Repent of your sins – Acts 2:38 Be baptized – 1 Peter 3:21 You have ENTERED the feast – Revelation 19:9 Remain faithful until the end – Hebrews 12:1
Ga 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

27. All things are ready; Come To The Feast!
Galatians 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Hear the word and believe – Romans 10:17 Confess Jesus as Lord – Matthew 10:32 Repent of your sins – Acts 2:38 Be baptized – 1 Peter 3:21 You have ENTERED the feast – Revelation 19:9 Remain faithful until the end – Hebrews 12:1
Ga 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

28. All things are ready; Come To The Feast!
Galatians 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Revelation 16:15 "Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame."
Hear the word and believe – Romans 10:17 Confess Jesus as Lord – Matthew 10:32 Repent of your sins – Acts 2:38 Be baptized – 1 Peter 3:21 You have ENTERED the feast – Revelation 19:9 Remain faithful until the end – Hebrews 12:1
Ga 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.