{"id":4162,"date":"2019-03-10T18:18:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T09:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2019-03-17T18:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T09:25:20","slug":"2019-3-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?p=4162","title":{"rendered":"1\u30c6\u30e2\u30c63:2-3\u300e\u3082\u3066\u306a\u3057\u300f2019\/3\/17 David Hawley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1140\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z63giLc3uoA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=ja&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Passage I Timothy 3:2-3<br \/>\nOther passages Luke 14:13-14, Matthew 25:41-43, Hebrews 12:2<br \/>\nBackground Qualifications for leadership (1 Tim 3) are markers of Christian maturity<br \/>\nSynopsis of the passage Christian maturity: Hospitable<br \/>\nMessage Outline Hospitality as<\/p>\n<p>Trial: Hospitality in the ancient world and the mysterious powerful<br \/>\nstranger to which we must respond appropriately<br \/>\nCommand: Jesus was in relationship with all kinds of people via<br \/>\nhospitality, and makes it clear he requires his disciples to show<br \/>\nhospitality to those who need it<br \/>\nDiscipline: Hospitality is hard as it takes effort to move beyond the<br \/>\nfamiliar, and often we take deep offense at some differences. We have<br \/>\nto train ourselves to be hospitable anyway.<br \/>\nConclusion:<br \/>\nJesus is the mysterious stranger who asks us to show him hospitality,<br \/>\nand then our lives will change.<br \/>\nCan we learn something from Jesus about the practice of giving and<br \/>\nreceiving hospitality, so our relationships will become more<br \/>\nmeaningful?<\/p>\n<p>Application Take steps to grow in hospitality<br \/>\nTitle Hospitality<\/p>\n<p>1.Introduction (1 min)<br \/>\na. We have been studying the characteristics of a mature Christian from 1 Tim 3. Today\u2019s<br \/>\ntopic is about the next quality in the list: \u201chospitable\u201d<br \/>\nb. So here\u2019s some questions we are going to touch on today:<br \/>\ni. How important is hospitality to discipleship?<br \/>\nii. Whom should be the target of our hospitality<br \/>\niii. Why is hospitality so difficult?<br \/>\nc. And I have three points<br \/>\ni. Trial by hospitality<br \/>\nii. Command to hospitability<br \/>\niii. Discipline of hospitality<br \/>\n2.Trial by hospitality (4 min)<\/p>\n<p>a. Hospitality is \u2018kindness\u2019 to strangers. It is an openness to warmly interact with others,<br \/>\nspecifically by opening one\u2019s home and sharing resources to meet needs.<br \/>\nb. Generally, in the ancient world, without police or hotels, travelers were at risk.<br \/>\ni. So hospitality towards strangers was a practical necessity.<br \/>\nii. The Greeks and Romans made hospitality a religious obligation by saying that<br \/>\ntheir chief god, Zeus, was the protector of travelers.<\/p>\n<p>c. In many cultures, there are stories of certain travelers that might even be gods<br \/>\nthemselves.<br \/>\ni. They come unannounced and in disguise, and are powerful.<br \/>\nii. E.g. Clint Eastwood (brings justice), Mito Koumon (brings justice), Sleeping<br \/>\nBeauty (don\u2019t be rude to witches), Beauty and the Beast (learn love, you beast)<br \/>\niii. These mysterious figures bring change, good or bad, depending on whether<br \/>\nthey have been rejected or welcomed appropriately.<br \/>\nd. In the bible too, people are sometimes visited by mysterious figures.<br \/>\ni. Abraham was visited by three angels, whom he welcomed, and he received<br \/>\nblessing accordingly<br \/>\nii. Right after that, his nephew Lot, living in Sodom, also welcomed a couple of<br \/>\nstrangers. But the people of the city were wicked, and wanted to treat the<br \/>\nstrangers brutally. God judged the city and destroyed it. But Lot\u2019s welcome and<br \/>\ndefense of the visitors, who were angels in disguise, saved him and his family.<\/p>\n<p>e. So the way we react to strangers<br \/>\ni. exposes something about us<br \/>\nii. In our interaction, there is both the possibility of curse and of blessing<br \/>\niii. There is the possibility of us growing because of the relationship<br \/>\nf. We could say that the opportunity to show hospitality is a divine trial or test.<\/p>\n<p>3.The command to hospitality<\/p>\n<p>a. The bible commands us to be hospitable, but not like the world does it.<br \/>\nb. Luke 14:7-14 The tendency of the world is to welcome those who can repay our<br \/>\nhospitality.<br \/>\ni. The Romans made a law about it. Two people would exchange presents, and<br \/>\nthat created the obligation to show hospitality when the other was traveling near<br \/>\nyou.<br \/>\nii. Heads of families would create social bonds by spending large amounts of<br \/>\nmoney to host other families for months at a time, and give expensive presents<br \/>\nwhen they left.<\/p>\n<p>c. Disciples of Jesus are commanded to a different kind of hospitality<br \/>\ni. We see Jesus showing hospitality when he fed large crowds, and the blessings<br \/>\ncame back as leftovers more than the food they started with. In other words, the<br \/>\nguests didn\u2019t repay &#8211; in fact they were eventually ungrateful &#8211; but a blessing<br \/>\ncame back from God\u2019s hand.<br \/>\nii. Remember that Jesus came to the world, and we showed him the hospitality of<br \/>\na barn. But the Father rewarded him.<br \/>\niii. Most importantly, Jesus showed an openness to people of all kinds, races,<br \/>\ngenders, social class, lifestyles, physical and mental health<br \/>\niv. Matthew 25:38 contains Jesus\u2019 demand that we welcome the stranger, that we<br \/>\nfeed and provide for his\/her needs.<br \/>\nd. Why early church hospitality was different<br \/>\ni. Early Christians identified themselves as strangers, whose home is in the<br \/>\nheavenly Jerusalem, in other words as strangers. Following Deut 19, they knew<br \/>\nto love the stranger, just as God does, showing no partiality, providing for their<br \/>\nneeds.<br \/>\n1. It is easier to show compassion when you also know yourself as a<br \/>\nstranger.<br \/>\n2. And in times of persecution over the first centuries of the church,<br \/>\nshowing hospitality to people fleeing persecution was a necessity.<\/p>\n<p>ii. As a result, in the early church<br \/>\n1. the circle of hosts and guests extended beyond just the heads of families<br \/>\ndoing family business<br \/>\n2. the lines between the givers and receivers were often purposely blurred.<br \/>\na. Who is being blessed, the guest who shares the loaves or the<br \/>\nhost who collects the multiplied leftovers?<\/p>\n<p>4.The discipline of hospitality<\/p>\n<p>a. The church struggled with the challenge of hospitality.<br \/>\nb. Let\u2019s remind ourselves of some of the types of strangers the church struggled with<br \/>\ni. Cultural<br \/>\n1. Acts 6: The Jewish disciples were ignoring the Gentile widows. Cultural<br \/>\nand religious differences.<br \/>\n2. Acts 10: Peter thought of the Gentiles as unclean, and this attitude was<br \/>\nfelt as disgust by many Jews.<\/p>\n<p>ii. Socio-economic<br \/>\n1. James 2:2-11 The rich are treated well, while the poor are treated with<br \/>\ndisrespect<br \/>\n2. 1 Cor 15:17-33 The rich feasted while ignoring the poor who went hungry<br \/>\nat fellowship meals around the Lord\u2019s Supper.<\/p>\n<p>iii. Status\/Competence<br \/>\n1. 1 Cor 12:12-26 All must be honored, highly gifted and less so, because<br \/>\nthere is one body, united with love.<\/p>\n<p>c. Why is it hard?<br \/>\ni. First, we need to purposely need to move outside the familiar if we are to<br \/>\nwelcome the stranger. That is why Hebrews 13:2 tells us \u201cnot to forget\u201d to be<br \/>\nhospitable.<br \/>\n1. We are naturally drawn to people like ourselves.<br \/>\nii. Secondly, we naturally tend dislike the stranger.<br \/>\n1. Food, culture, ways of acting may be things our culture forbids and<br \/>\ndetests.<br \/>\n2. The sick evoke our natural instinctive aversion to sickness and death<br \/>\n3. The weak evoke our fear of being without status<br \/>\niii. One reason for that can be what psychologists call \u2018disgust sensitivity\u2019.<br \/>\n1. The sick evoke our aversion to pathogens<br \/>\n2. Some cultural things evoke our disgust<\/p>\n<p>d. We need to train the elephant<br \/>\ni. We need to expand the circle of our affections beyond the safe and liked<br \/>\nii. We need to adopt practices that will over time reconfigure our feelings and<br \/>\naffections<\/p>\n<p>Small group discussion<br \/>\n\u25cf Can you recall when people were hospitable to you in a way that made a lasting impact on<br \/>\nyou?<br \/>\n\u25cf Who do you find it easy to be hospitable towards? Who do you find it hard to be hospitable<br \/>\ntowards?<br \/>\n\u25cf What opportunities do you have to be more hospitable? How do you think it would change you<br \/>\nand your relationships with others?<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion<br \/>\n\u25cf Jesus is the mysterious stranger who stands at the door and knocks. If we show him<br \/>\nhospitality, he will come in to be with us. And our lives will be changed.<br \/>\n\u25cf Jesus showed us how to be hospitable to and receive hospitality from all kinds of people. Can<br \/>\nwe learn something from this, so our relationships with others might become more significant?<br \/>\n\u25cf Is Jesus putting something on your heart to obey more deeply his command to be hospitable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passage I Timothy 3:2-3 Other passages Luke 14:13-14, Matthew 25:41-43, Hebrews 12:2 Background Qualifications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"0","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-message"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p97PsF-158","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3969,"url":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?p=3969","url_meta":{"origin":4162,"position":0},"title":"1\u30c6\u30e2\u30c63:1-13 \u300e\u6559\u4f1a\u306e\u30ea\u30fc\u30c0\u30fc\u30b7\u30c3\u30d7\u300f 2018\/10\/28 David Hawley","author":"crossroads","date":"2018-10-28","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WZTqMsGSBxs Passage 1 Timothy 3:1\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","block_context":{"text":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","link":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/WZTqMsGSBxs\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4071,"url":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?p=4071","url_meta":{"origin":4162,"position":1},"title":"1\u30c6\u30e2\u30c63:1-13 \u300e\u4eba\u683c\u306e\u6210\u719f\u3068\u826f\u3044\u8a55\u5224\u300f2018\/11\/25 David Hawley","author":"crossroads","date":"2018-11-25","format":false,"excerpt":"Passage I Timothy 3:1-13 Other passages Ephesians \u2026","rel":"","context":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","block_context":{"text":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","link":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3473,"url":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?p=3473","url_meta":{"origin":4162,"position":2},"title":"\u30ed\u30fc\u30de12:9-21 \u300e\u30ed\u30fc\u30de\uff13\uff15\u3000\u751f\u304d\u305f\u3044\u3051\u306b\u3048\uff08\u5fdc\u7528\uff09\u300f 2018\/03\/18 David Hawley","author":"crossroads","date":"2018-03-18","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZbwSRfGu1AA Passage Romans 12:9-2\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","block_context":{"text":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","link":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ZbwSRfGu1AA\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4073,"url":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?p=4073","url_meta":{"origin":4162,"position":3},"title":"1\u30c6\u30e2\u30c63:1-13 \u300e\u8c9e\u64cd\u89b3\u5ff5\u3068\u6210\u9577\u300f2018\/12\/9 David Hawley","author":"crossroads","date":"2018-12-09","format":false,"excerpt":"Passage I Timothy 3:1-5 Other passages Background \u2026","rel":"","context":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","block_context":{"text":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","link":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4180,"url":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?p=4180","url_meta":{"origin":4162,"position":4},"title":"1\u30c6\u30e2\u30c63:2-3 \u300e\u5f1f\u5b50\u80b2\u6210\uff1a\u6559\u3048\u308b\u80fd\u529b\u300f 2019\/4\/14 David Hawley","author":"crossroads","date":"2019-04-14","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jUGk0SmhaLY Passage I Timothy 3:2\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","block_context":{"text":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","link":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/jUGk0SmhaLY\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4197,"url":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?p=4197","url_meta":{"origin":4162,"position":5},"title":"1\u30c6\u30e2\u30c63:1-3 \u300e\u9152\u98f2\u307f\u3067\u306f\u306a\u304f\u300f 2019\/05\/12 David Hawley","author":"crossroads","date":"2019-05-12","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6kn78faNNCU Passage 1 Tim 3:3 \/ 1\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","block_context":{"text":"\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8","link":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/6kn78faNNCU\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4163,"href":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossroads-church.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}