Hospitality

Showing Hospitality

This article shows us the importance of hospitality.

Hospitality Is Not an Optional Ministry

This article discusses the fundamental importance of hospitality in the church, and provides five ways to pursue it, with 1 Corinthians 16 as springboard.

Sevenfold Mercy (4): Hospitality Towards Strangers

This series of articles calls Christians to display the works of mercy described in Matthew 25:31-46. This article focuses on the call to show hospitality to strangers.

Godly Hospitality

This article gives an overview of hospitality in the Old and New Testament.

Having an Eye for the Harvest

This article discusses church hospitality and identifies several ways to make visitors feel welcomed in the church.

The Biblical Basis of Hospitality

This article is about hospitality and Jesus Christ. The motivation for and purpose of hospitality, especially to strangers, is also discussed.

Hospitality is crucial for church outreach, church life, and church growth. The article gives the biblical grounds for hospitality, barriers to church hospitality, and ways in which churches can improve their hospitality.

Ten Things You Should Know about Christian Hospitality

Christians are called to be hospitable, since Christian hospitality has to do with our Lord. How? Here are ten things to help you see how hospitality is related to the gospel.

Hospitable Hearts It's not about Impressing People, but Following God's Example

This article explains that hospitality is a posture of the heart, and about magnifying Christ.

Open Heart, Open Home – The World: God's Sincere Invitation Visualized through Our Hospitality

This article explains that hospitality provides to a broken world an open window of God’s hospitality toward us. Very often people hear the gospel by seeing it in action in Christians, particularly in their homes. In the early church the home was a crucial place for the spread of the faith, and it remains an important setting for building relationships. The church in the Western world needs to rediscover the value of hospitality for the visualizing of the call of the gospel. The article provides some helpful hints for hosting neighbours.

Open Heart, Open Home – The Church: God's Glorious Image of Hospitality

This article shows how hospitality was a way of life in early Christian households. Hospitality is the gospel in action, a way of showing that God has received us in his grace. The article considers the various biblical commands to practice hospitality, pointing out that each command is set in the context of love. It goes on to focus on hospitality as an important qualification for the office of elder, and is of great value in shepherding the flock.

Open Heart, Open Home – God Himself: His Gracious Hospitality Toward Us

Why should Christians show hospitality? This article explores this question by showing that the story of the Bible is the story of God’s hospitality toward us. It speaks of a table of fellowship once given, lost, then restored, to God’s people. Food and the table are a unifying theme in Scripture, and this article gives a sense of how this is so, and its relevance for how we may show practical grace in hospitality.

1 Timothy 3:2 – The Character of the Christian: Hospitable

The qualifications for being an elder should not be limited to them. They should be characteristics of all Christians. This article explains that in 1 Timothy 3:2 God calls Christians to show hospitality.

The Practice of Hospitality

Why are Christians required to practice hospitality? Based on Hebrews 13:1-2 this article argues that hospitality is an expression of Christ's love to strangers, and a mark of genuine faith.

How We Show Hospitality

This article shows how through the practice of welcoming strangers and personal sacrifices Christians can practice hospitality.

"Philoxenia" - Love Of A Stranger

The Bible exhorts Christians to love strangers and show hospitality. In this article the author shows some practical ways of loving strangers and showing hospitality through prayer, serving food and drinks, and providing accommodations.

Entertaining Angels

From Hebrews 13:2, this article exhorts believers to the call of hospitality that is motivated by God's love expressed through his people to strangers.

A Stranger Love

The Bible exhorts Christians to love strangers and show hospitality. In this article the author goes through a list of potential strangers who may be in need of your hospitable gift. Visitors in your church, members within the church you are not familiar with, Christians you meet on the street, and enemies. How do you show hospitality to these people?

Hospitality: The Giving and Receiving of It

This article discusses hospitality under the headings: shown in Scripture, shown at home, and shown to us.

"My Home, Your Castle"

The challenge of showing hospitality is rooted not in what your home is like but in what your heart is like. Too many Christians offer excuses for why they cannot practice hospitality.

Reflections on Christian Hospitality Based Upon Acts 18:24-28

This article gives a few principles for hospitality based on Acts 18:24-28.

How to Share God's Love through Hospitality

This article provides ways in which you can share the love of God through hospitality, whether at home or at church.

Guess Who Is Coming: Hospitality Hints for Overnight Guests

Showing hospitality is a command that Christians must obey. How can you make your house hospitable? This article shares some tips that can help.

Open Heart, Open Home – Conclusion

This article testifies to the impact that hospitality makes in evangelism. It is a little taste of the final banquet that is to come in the kingdom of God.

Thoughts on Hospitality

Showing hospitality is a command that Christians must obey. What is the need for it? This article shows that hospitality can be a witness to Christ's love.

Creating Space: Hospitality as a Metaphor for Mission

Beginning with the biblical witness, Cathy Ross explores the character of hospitality. She shows how it can function as a powerful metaphor for mission. We are encouraged and enabled to reflect on the importance of shared meals and being at the margins, the need to see and respect the guest and stranger as other.

Hospitality: The Apostle John, Jacques Derrida, and Us

In this article, the author conducts a methodical study of the practice of hospitality among Christians and how hospitality should be understood in today's context. The author discusses this matter by referring to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, the writings of the apostle John, and also the present-day context.

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