Radical Hospitality - Going above and beyond to love others into the family of Christ.

This weeks Text: Luke 6:17-38

This weeks Title: Radical Hospitality: Living upside down, inside out and backwards.

This weeks theme: Radical Hospitality – welcoming and evangelism, together at last.

This weeks worship team:

Leader – Jamie P.

Rhythm Electric Guitar – Luis S.

Lead Guitar - Josue.

Bass - Adam W.

Drum – Luke B.

Singers - ???

In a Nut Shell:

Radical hospitality is not coffee and donuts (although donuts are nice). It is not a greeter at the door. It is an orientation of our being that sees everyone as a valued guest. It is the deep belief that God loves us humans and that each and every life holds significance.

When Jesus sat down and told his followers about his Kingdom, his message always seemed upside down from the world he (and now we) lived in. In Luke 6 we see Jesus saying that people who live in his Kingdom (i.e. the “saved”) will be a people who weep, mourn, who are hungry and in need. He also said that his people will “love their enemies” and bless those who curse them.

If we are the church of Jesus, Jesus followers, then not only will we be a people who fit this description, but a people who go out of their way to make other people (poor, sick, oppressed, marginalized people) feel like they are a welcome part of our family. Showing hospitality means that when you see those people who others see as outcasts, you see as family. Not the 2nd cousin twice removed that you have only seen at a few funerals kind of family, but the spouse or child type of family.

Getting there is not easy though. So this week we will look into some basic Jesus teaching that will lead us into a life of Radical welcome and Uncommon Unity.

“Christianity has taken a giant stride into the absurd. Remove from Christianity its ability to shock and it is altogether destroyed. It then becomes a tiny superficial thing, capable neither of inflicting deep wounds nor of healing them. It’s when the absurd starts to sound reasonable that we should begin to worry. “[What assertions are so absurd? Try these on for size] “Blessed are the meek; thou shalt not kill; love your enemies; go, sell all you have and give to the poor!”

-Soren Kierkegaard

This weeks Worship Songs:

Glorious… D

Take My Life and Let it Be/ I am Yours… D

O How He Loves Us …. C

Offering

Living for your glory A

Tis So Sweet…D (My arrangement)

Closing Song… Not I But Christ (Traditional Hymn, no recording)

OR>>>>>> May your Power Rest on Me (F) - See video in side bar!

That's all folks.