The Gospel Comes with a House Key
Priceless
The Merit of Hospitality
• May 12, 2016, 5:15 a.m., Durham, North Carolina
Pages 15-20
TOGETHER read the book and discuss the content below.
INDIVIDUALLY take notes in your journal on what stands out (try to keep it brief).
Where else but a Christian home should neighbors go in times of unprecedented crisis? Where else is it safe to be vulnerable, scared, lost, hopeless?
Matthew 22:37-39 (NIV) “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
TOGETHER pray for one another.
INDIVIDUALLY answer the questions in your journal - process your notes and pray.
How can you arrange your schedule in order to better love God and love your neighbor?
When was a time you were tempted to make your to-do list more important than the pressing needs of others?
How does the awareness that everyone is your neighbor change the way you think about how you open your home?
How does being a Bible-believing Christian help you make sense of tragedy?
How does the knowledge that “the sin that will undo me is my own, not my neighbor’s, no matter how big my neighbor’s sin may appear” change how you love your neighbor?
A prayer for loving your neighbor:
Dear Lord, help me to know the gospel bridge that will lead me to my unsaved neighbor. Give me wisdom for how to structure my daily schedule and to-do list in order to meet the needs of others. Renew in me a greater love for my neighbor as I become increasingly aware of the love and grace you have shown to me.
EXTRA READING:
A prayer of Irish Monk Columbanus (543 - 615):
”Loving Savior, be pleased to show yourself to us who knock, so that in knowing you, we may love only you, love you alone, desire you alone, contemplate only you day and night, and always think of you. Inspire in us the depth of love that is fitting for you to receive as God. May our love be so great that the many waters of sky, land, and sea cannot extinguish it in us.”