Hospitality That Changes Lives — Part 3
When God’s People Break Bread Together
Acts 2:42–47
Introduction: Fellowship and sharing create thriving Christian community. Acts 2:42–47 comes immediately after Peter’s Pentecost sermon, the crowd’s conviction, repentance, baptism, and the addition of about three thousand souls; Luke is not merely showing us how a meeting ended, but how a redeemed people began to live. In Acts 2, we see fellowship is not coffee and small talk. Fellowship is shared life. Fellowship is the gospel life made visible.
I want you to see four marks of a thriving Christian community and my prayer is, we will strive to adopt all four right here in our church.
Listening Guide – Hospitality That Changes Lives (Part 3)
Hospitality That Changes Lives (Part 2)
The Table That Reaches the World
Luke 14:12–24
Introduction: Luke 14:12–24 does more than tell us who gets into God’s kingdom; it tells us how kingdom people must live now. In this passage, loving outsiders is not a side ministry of the church; it is central to the gospel itself.
Jesus teaches that the table of grace must move outward—past our preferences, past our comfort, and into the streets where the poor, forgotten, and overlooked live.
Listening Guide – Hospitality That Changes Lives (Part 2)
Service And Sermon – Hospitality That Changes Lives (Part 2)
Hospitality That Changes Lives
Open Homes, Open Hearts: The Ministry of Hospitality
(Romans 12:13; Hebrews 13:1–2)
Introduction: Hospitality is a spiritual discipline that welcomes Christ into our home. When we open our homes, hearts, and hands to others, we invite Jesus in.
We live in a world of closed doors and guarded hearts, but the gospel calls us to radical Christian hospitality as a means of grace. Jesus stands at the door and knocks, and when we welcome strangers, we may be welcoming Him. As we move from the idea of hospitality to actually living it out, Scripture first points us to where it begins—right at our front door.
Listening Guide – Hospitality That Changes Lives
Service and Sermon – Hospitality That Changes Lives
