The Gospel Comes with a House Key
The Gospel Comes with a House Key (2|5)
The Seal of Hospitality
• Home as Hospital and Incubator
Pages 93-98
TOGETHER read the book (END READING AT: God makes the key - and the lock to fit it.) and discuss the content below.
INDIVIDUALLY take notes in your journal on what stands out (try to keep it brief).
James 1:27 (NIV) Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Galatians 6:9-10 (NIV) Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
James 3:17-18 (NIV) But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
Christians have a moral responsibility to be good stewards, and this includes stewarding the church, religious liberty, ideas, laws, the family, and the worldwide refugee crisis. The world is watching - and rightly so. And our lack of visible and genuine hospitality - practiced both inside our community and outside - is speaking louder than words right now.
TOGETHER pray for one another.
INDIVIDUALLY answer the questions in your journal - process your notes and pray.
Christian conversion always comes in exchange for the life you once loved, not in addition to it, people have much to lose in coming to Christ - and some people have more to lose than others.
What is your response to that statement?
In Mark 10:28-31 Jesus speaks about how to love anyone who responds to the gospel in faith and obedience and who must love everything in order to gain the kingdom’s promises. Jesus says that he expects we will lose partners and children and houses in the process of conversion and that conversion calls everyone to lose everything. God’s people need to wake up to something.
What is your response to that statement?
Have you lost anything by deciding to follow Jesus?
What might you lose if you were to turn the boldness in sharing the gospel up?
EXTRA READING:
“Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the incarnation of Jesus Christ. From the time Christ came, the ancient slavery has ended, the devil is confounded, demons take flight, the power of death is broken, paradise is unlocked, the curse is taken away, sin is removed from us, error has been driven out, truth has been brought back. A heavenly way of life has been implanted on the earth.”
- Pope Leo I (400 - 461)