Week 8: Hospitality (Census 2021 Special)
Our Weekly Spiritual Practice: SHARE A MEAL WITH SOMEONE
- Invite someone to eat and drink. Ideally, open your home but if not invite them to a third space (i.e. café, pub, park).
- Privately Pray for your guest before, during, and after your meal. You want to see God in their life, pray into that.
- During your time together, ask questions, listen and don’t be afraid to share personal and meaningful conversation, be vulnerable. Creating room for the guest. Just focus on loving them, building friendship and trust.
- If you’d like to go deeper, listen to the ‘Radically Ordinary Hospitality’ here or apple podcast here
Discussion Questions
- Each share a time where hospitality food and drink were part of building better relationships or moving you closer to Jesus.
- Why don’t people practice hospitality well, open their homes, invite strangers around, build deep relationships?
- Read aloud some of the scriptures that show us how Jesus used hospitality to build bridges and quell hostility. (Luke 5:27-32, 19:1-10).
- Name one way you could practice hospitality better to reach the unchurched?