Mission as Hospitality

Mission as Hospitality
Author: Edward L. Smither
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725257319

God is a missionary God. God is also hospitable in his nature. He makes his enemies friends and invites them to intimate communion. The mission of God in Scripture often occurs through hospitality when God’s people encounter the not-yet people of God at table or in hospitable environments and invite them to believe. This motif of mission as hospitality plays out through the Old and New Testament Scriptures, and through the Eucharist. It can also be observed through the witness of monks and contemporary missionaries who embraced a hospitable approach to mission. For the church to participate in God’s mission today, a vision to win, conquer, or change the world should be exchanged for a conviction to welcome the stranger and make room for others while proclaiming the gospel—that is, to imitate the hospitable God in mission.

The Simplest Way to Change the World

The Simplest Way to Change the World
Author: Dustin Willis
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802495117

How to make disciples using hospitality Deep down, every Christian wants to make a difference. But for many of us, the years come and go and we never do. The good news is: change can be as simple as opening your front door. The Simplest Way to Change the World is about biblical hospitality and its power for the gospel. Since people will sooner enter a living room than a church, hospitality is a natural and effective way to build relationships for Christ. You’ll learn: How the home can be a hub for community How hospitality leads to joy, purpose, and belonging How it grows families to love the things of God How it’s not about being the perfect host How to be hospitable regardless of your living space Hospitality is a beautiful legacy of the church, and a great way to make disciples. As you open your life up to others, you share in the very character of God and experience His joy. And you get to witness lives change—including your own. Includes 20+ creative ideas for hospitality, plus questions for small groups

Hospitality Matters

Hospitality Matters
Author: Courtney Reissig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2015-11-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692590133

How does hospitality shape who we are as Christians, and how should we extend this hospitable love toward others? In this resource, we'll look at how biblical hospitality plays out in Christian homes-for women and men-and how we might consider our small acts of hospitable love as larger participation in God's plan to see disciples of Jesus be made and welcomed into the household of faith. We hope that you might begin to consider what it looks like for you, no matter your season, to begin shaping your home and life toward a hospitable aim.

Making Room

Making Room
Author: Chistine D. Pohl
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1999-08-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802844316

For most of church history, hospitality was central to Christian identity. Yet our generation knows little about this rich, life-giving practice.

Saved by Faith and Hospitality

Saved by Faith and Hospitality
Author: Joshua W. Jipp
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467448737

Too few Christians today, says Joshua Jipp, understand hospitality to strangers and the marginalized as an essential part of the church's identity. In this book Jipp argues that God's relationship to his people is fundamentally an act of hospitality to strangers, and that divine and human hospitality together are thus at the very heart of Christian faith. Jipp first provides a thorough interpretation of the major biblical texts related to the practice of hospitality to strangers, considering especially how these texts portray Christ as the divine host who extends God's welcome to all people. Jipp then invites readers to consider how God's hospitality sets the pattern for human hospitality, offering suggestions on how the practice of welcoming strangers can guide the church in its engagement with current social challenges—immigration, incarceration, racism, and more.

People Are the Mission

People Are the Mission
Author: Danny Franks
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310538688

If you’re a leader in a church or business, and you want to improve your culture of hospitality, then you’ll love Danny’s new book. It’s a must-read! -Dan T. Cathy, CEO, Chick-fil-A When it comes to interacting with guests, churches typically gravitate towards one of two camps: over-the-top, shock-and-awe, let-us-entertain-you or oh-man,-some-people-just-showed-up, underwhelming experience. Each extreme has drawbacks: on one end, people become the center of the universe. On the other, hospitality is effectively ignored in deference to the "serious business" of worship. People Are the Mission proposes a healthy middle, one where guests are esteemed but the gospel is the goal. Danny Franks, Connections Pastor at Summit Church, shows churches how to take a more balanced approach - a "third way" that is both guest-friendly and gospel-centric. He shows why honoring the stranger doesn't stand in opposition to honoring the Savior. People are the mission that Christ has called us to, and if we focus on people we can better assist people to focus on the gospel.

Living the Hospitality of God

Living the Hospitality of God
Author: Lucien Richard
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809139989

Invites readers to an authentic vision of selfhood, calling us to be proactive in our interactions with others.

Hospitality Management Education

Hospitality Management Education
Author: Kaye Sung Chon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136379282

Help students succeed now and in the future in any aspect of the hospitality field! Hospitality Management Education focuses on the academic aspect of hospitality--the mechanisms of hospitality education programs, their missions, their constituents, and the outcomes of their efforts. This book examines why people study hospitality management, the vast opportunities the field offers, and ways to best prepare students for a career in the industry or in academia. Within Hospitality Management Education, you'll find exhibits, figures, tables, and insight into innovative practice methods that will strengthen your skills as an educator and contributor to the growing success of this discipline. Containing research and first-hand accounts, Hospitality Management Education offers you insight into qualities and strategies that make educators or employees effective and successful in the industry. You'll find useful information to help you better prepare students and enhance your teaching skills, such as: understanding the history and advances of hospitality management education during the past 75 years stressing the difference between the hospitality industry and other industries to help prospective hospitality students understand the unique rigors of hospitality examining degree programs in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States to identify common global teaching trends, differences, and program outcomes enhancing student learning and education programs by linking academic hospitality programs to industry through internships, involvement with industry associations, and advisory councils assuring quality in academic programs through accreditation, certification, outside peer reviews, outside reviews by the industry, and administrative reviews of the faculty preparing for a professional academic career through strategic career planning, networking, and targeting hospitality programs Hospitality Management Education discusses educational trends as a whole over the past decade to give you insight into future directions of hospitality such as increased specialization, growing numbers of faculty, more funding, and increased academic focus on research and scholarship. In this valuable volume, you'll find methods and suggestions that will make you a more knowledgeable and effective educator!