Hospitality without Grumbling

Hospitality – without Grumbling
1 Peter 4:9

I. Defining Hospitality
Philoxenos = love of strangers
Websters 1828 Dictionary “The act or practice of receiving and entertaining strangers or guests without reward, with kind and generous liberality.”

II. The Foundations of Hospitality
1. Leviticus 19:33-34
“I am the Lord your God.”
2. Hebrews 13:16, and verses 1-3
3. David, Nabal, and Abigial -- I Sam 25
4. The Shunammite Woman II Kings 4:8-10

III. A Practical Warning in Hospitality
Excerpts from The Didache (cir. 110 A.D.)

IV. The Importance of Hospitality
Hospitality is meant to be subversive to the culture in the way it shatters
social boundaries, especially in the practice of “table fellowship”.

V. A Case Study in Hospitality -- Philemon

FINAL APPLICATIONS
1. Be willing to give – even if you are occasionally taken advantage of.
2. Have people in your home.
3. Make the focus of your fellowship the people and not the things.
4. Hospitality extends to the church service too.