WELCOMED IN How the Gospel Shapes our

Hospitality

Psalm 68:4-6 (NASB)

Sing to God, sing praises to His name;

Lift up a song for Him who rides through the deserts,

Whose name is the Lord, and exult before Him.

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,

Is God in His holy habitation.

God makes a home for the lonely

WELCOMED IN How the Gospel Shapes our

Hospitality

MISCONCEPTIONS

DEFINING HOSPITALITY

1. Making people feel welcomed and

wanted

2. Anticipating needs

Psalm 68:5-6 (NASB)

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,

Is God in His holy habitation.

God makes a home for the lonely

Ephesians 1:5 (ESV)

In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as

sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of

his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which

he has blessed us in the Beloved.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the

forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches

of his grace.

THE GOSPEL IS THE

FOUNDATION FOR OUR

HOSPITALITY

3 CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE

1. The Church

2. Our Neighbors

3. The Most Vulnerable

1. THE CHURCH (Friends and Strangers)

Romans 12:13 (HCSB)

Share with the saints in their needs; pursue hospitality.

Hebrews 13:2 (ESV)

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers,

for thereby some have entertained angels

unawares.

1. THE CHURCH (Friends and Strangers)

2. OUR NEIGHBORS

Luke 10:27 (ESV)

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your

God with all your heart and with all your soul and

with all your strength and with all your mind,

and your neighbor as yourself.

2. OUR NEIGHBORS

Rosaria Butterfield’s Story

Book: The Gospel Comes with the

House Key

3. THE MOST VULNERABLE

James 1:27 (ESV)

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God

the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in

their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained

from the world.

Psalm 68:5 (NASB)

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,

Acts 7:21 (ESV)

…and when he was exposed, Pharaoh's

daughter adopted him and brought him up as

her own son.

3 CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE

1. The Church

2. Our Neighbors

3. The Most Vulnerable

WELCOMED IN How the Gospel Shapes our

Hospitality

INTERVIEW

Shaun and Mary Lou Tan