How do you know if you are called for Hospitality?

Testimony

“I gotta tell you something and I want you to share it with Meagan. I’m reclinging in the living room at work, listening to calm classical music and half-way meditating and I became overwhelmed with emotion because of the love you all have shown me. You all get me and accept me and are actual friends. The first I’ve really had. I know I say it at least once I week but I am serious.”

What did I do? Did I lay hands and heal him? Did I teach him to understand the mind of God? Did I bring down fire and show him the power of God? No...

What is Hospitality?

Luke 14:12-14 Learning from Mike

Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Romans 12:14 Paul explaining living sacrifice

Love is to be sincere and active. Hate what is evil; hold on tightly to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another with brotherly affection, give preference to one another in honor; 11 never lagging behind in diligence; aglow in the Spirit, enthusiastically serving the Lord; 12 constantly rejoicing in hope , steadfast and patient in distress, devoted to prayer, 13 contributing to the needs of God’s people, pursuing hospitality.

1 Peter 4 The Church Members

7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

Titus 1:4-9 Can’t be an Elder without it, not like serving tables

To Titus, my true son in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. Appointing Elders Who Love What Is Good. The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

6 An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. 7 Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. 8 Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. 9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.

There is more that God has for your ministry that you are missing out on because of not being hospitible.

Do you exist? Then you are called to hospitality.

There is no excuse: and I’ve heard them all. If you live in a van invite people to a picnic.

How do I start praying? How do I start reading scripture? How do I start wanting to come to God and stop doing it out of obligation. Push yourself. Empty yourself. Run out for the people around you and you won’t have to pretend to need Him.

My dream