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What are your favorite ways to show hospitality? - 10/17/2009 7:30:07 PM
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Fritzpw_Admin
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The Single Life: Showing Souper Hospitality
Susan Ellingburg - Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
I don't know about you, but I love having people over to my place for dinner.
For one thing, having company on a regular basis is the best way I know to make sure my home stays really clean. (Sadly, I must confess that my standards have a tendency to slip when the cats and I are the only ones with a view of the mess.) Beyond that, there's a sense of satisfaction in bringing people together for good food and conversation. But there's another reason to host social gatherings ...
We have a biblical mandate to show hospitality. Paul tells us straight up in Romans 12:13, "Practice hospitality." Peter expands on that idea in 1 Peter 4:9, "Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling." Without grumbling, eh? I'm thinking there's a story behind that one. Peter seems to have been prone to inviting people over without much forethought—remember when he brought Jesus and the boys home for dinner the day his mother-in-law was sick in bed? I can imagine Mrs. Peter had a few choice words to say about that! However, since Jesus promptly healed her mom (clearly HE understood the stress Mrs. P was under, even if her husband was clueless), it all worked out in the end. But it does make me wonder if the "without grumbling" part was directed to anyone in particular.
Should you host a dinner party? Why not? It's good practice for your social skills. It's a great way to get on the invite list for other people's parties. If you're like me, it will prompt you to clean house just a little more carefully than usual. It's also a good way to introduce separate sets of friends to each other, celebrate a milestone, or get to know people better.
Read the rest of The Single Life: Showing Souper Hospitality
What are your favorite ways to show hospitality?
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RE: What are your favorite ways to show hospitality? - 10/20/2009 10:37:35 PM
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RosieCotton
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Is hosting social gatherings the only way to show hospitality?
Main Entry: hos·pi·tal·i·ty
Pronunciation: \ˌhäs-pə-ˈta-lə-tē\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural hos·pi·tal·i·ties
Date: 14th century
: hospitable treatment, reception, or disposition
Doesnt really tell me much about this word.......
going to do more digging.
< Message edited by RosieCotton -- 10/20/2009 10:44:06 PM >
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RE: What are your favorite ways to show hospitality? - 10/21/2009 4:42:59 AM
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What are your favorite ways to show hospitality?
Whenever the Bible mentions hospitality it is by way of a commandment to share His love through serving others.
Through our local church body by "contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality." Romans 12:13
And through serving others we do not know Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrews 12:2
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RE: What are your favorite ways to show hospitality? - 10/21/2009 12:56:48 PM
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RosieCotton
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Thank you.....Samson, i was thinking about this earlier.......where it is more then opening your home and sharing a dinner.
I've been doing some tutoring, and helping out in an adult ed. reading program.
Amazing places.
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RE: What are your favorite ways to show hospitality? - 10/23/2009 12:33:07 PM
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I agree with the others... hospitality is more than just hosting people at your home.
Going through my old Bible, I just discovered the word "hospitality" written beneath Job 2:13... "Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was." They ministered to their friend... THAT was hospitality. It doesn't have to be a dinner party... it can be relieving a friend who is sitting beside his mother in the hospital. Or offering kindness to a stranger.
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RE: What are your favorite ways to show hospitality? - 10/23/2009 10:57:42 PM
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DrivenbyGod
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What are your favorite ways to show hospitality?
It's definitely going to be about the food. I enjoy cooking, so it would be dinner or a bbq. All I need is a good woman that loves to clean up the mess and I'll be in heaven... ;)
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RE: What are your favorite ways to show hospitality? - 10/27/2009 12:04:35 AM
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I hope I didn't offend anyone with my previous post. I agree with everyone that hospitality is more then just hosting... my comment was just based on the initial reading of this thread and I didn't put much thought into it, but I guess I should in the future.
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RE: What are your favorite ways to show hospitality? - 10/27/2009 3:43:33 PM
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I wasn't offended, Driven. (Some threads get more activity than others. There's no rhyme or reason to forums traffic patterns. They are what they are.  )
I have CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome ... hat-tip to Flylady.com). Which means my home is way, way, WAY too messy to have anyone over. Truly. I don't want anyone entering it but me. Sad that if Jesus returned in the flesh, I wouldn't want Him peeking even through the crack in the door! (But, yet, the All-knowing One sees all the mess anyway.) So... that avenue of being hospitable isn't currently available to me. And... I guess it's really, really not my favorite way to be hospitable. I've liked having people over to my home, but I've liked it even better when they've gone. I think that's my introverted side coming out. (My home is MY place to recharge.) It really wears me out to have people over. And I enjoy it while they are there. But I really really like my place much better after they've gone. (Maybe I've just not gotten used to having people come hang out at my place. I dunno. There's not room for a large gathering.) However, I do want to get married. Is there a paradox here? 
I'd really rather be hospitable by extending friendliness and friendship to someone, taking an interest in who s/he is, getting to know her/him, and helping her/him with something that needs a solution. And that can take place anywhere. This is probably related to my love language and to my spiritual gifting -- words of affirmation (love lang.) and encouragement/exhortation (spiritual gift).
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RE: What are your favorite ways to show hospitality? - 10/27/2009 8:57:41 PM
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HERE'S a devotional on hospitality that arrived in my inbox today.
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I love the holidays – especially Christmas – spending time with family and friends. It’s so much fun to get together with those you love. Laughing…Sharing…The warmth of the fire place.
But the real blessing comes when you are able to give to someone who’s in need. When you do, you are the one who receives the greater blessing. That’s God’s gift to those who give!
Watching an elderly lady beam with joy because someone decided to clean her home…A young family is able to pay off a debt due to an anonymous financial gift…A single mom gets a night off because someone offered to watch her kids…these are definitions of true hospitality. And it is the kind of giving that touches the heart of God.
When was the last time you reached out and touched someone? Look around your neighborhood. Talk with the leaders of your church about needs within the congregation. Visit a local nursing facility or homeless shelter. Serve as a volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center. Call a friend. Smile at someone. There are millions of ways to practice hospitality. God wants to use you today!
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RE: What are your favorite ways to show hospitality? - 10/27/2009 9:20:34 PM
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DrivenbyGod
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I've liked having people over to my home, but I've liked it even better when they've gone.
I know what you mean and actually it's just something I'd like to do at this point. I don't really have the place right now to entertain that way, but know I would enjoy it. Outside of that I prefer to have peace and quiet and the only noise I care to hear are the animals in the hills or my dog.. if i had one.
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