In this week’s lecture and reading on hospitality, I learned that being a hospitable person is not only about being nice or doing nice things. Hospitality comes from the love of God and that all the things we do in life should bring honor to God. During the lecture, the speaker talked about hospitality. It 's not a personal gain but a connection that we have with God. When he said this it resonated with me. I’ve always seen hospitality as small acts of kindness and attempting to make others feel good. After hearing this lecture, that’s not the only way to be hospitable, it’s about showing people Christ through our acts of kindness. not for personal gain. I now view hospitality as a service to Christ and others. Being hospitable is not a service
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I agreed that showing hospitality is for Christ and not for self that comes with challenges. In the story, the married couple faces a lot of obstacles. For example, they had to leave for a trip and left the homeless man alone, but through God the couple had faith. The couple put their faith in God and their local community to be hospitality towards the homeless man. This example shows that even though human fear of trusting others, God will always see the situation through. Also during the lecture, the speaker spoke about making a change to be a hospitable person will have challenges. One of the challenges that the speaker told was falling many times while trying to be hospitable towards people. He referred to being hospitable is like entertaining angels in Hebrews 13. For example, as Christians, we should as treat strangers as if they are angles. We should embrace strangers and help them in tough situations because you could be helping out an angel. Even though I may fail in being hospitable, I have to …show more content…
The ways that I want to apply hospitality to my life is servicing others that get forgotten. In my personal life, I have experience struggles that I’m aware other people have gone through. I had people who didn’t even know me show me hospitable when I felt like I didn’t deserve it. I want to be able to show people who are going through a difficult that not only I care about them but God does too. And that I’m not there to make myself feel better but to led the Christ and to show that he hasn’t forgotten about
I agreed that showing hospitality is for Christ and not for self that comes with challenges. In the story, the married couple faces a lot of obstacles. For example, they had to leave for a trip and left the homeless man alone, but through God the couple had faith. The couple put their faith in God and their local community to be hospitality towards the homeless man. This example shows that even though human fear of trusting others, God will always see the situation through. Also during the lecture, the speaker spoke about making a change to be a hospitable person will have challenges. One of the challenges that the speaker told was falling many times while trying to be hospitable towards people. He referred to being hospitable is like entertaining angels in Hebrews 13. For example, as Christians, we should as treat strangers as if they are angles. We should embrace strangers and help them in tough situations because you could be helping out an angel. Even though I may fail in being hospitable, I have to …show more content…
The ways that I want to apply hospitality to my life is servicing others that get forgotten. In my personal life, I have experience struggles that I’m aware other people have gone through. I had people who didn’t even know me show me hospitable when I felt like I didn’t deserve it. I want to be able to show people who are going through a difficult that not only I care about them but God does too. And that I’m not there to make myself feel better but to led the Christ and to show that he hasn’t forgotten about