Hospitality as Outreach

By Paul Wilkinson

Michael C. Mack challenges general understandings of hospitality as mere caregiver, instead arguing for a radical outreach paradigm in search of strangers to love through our caregiving.
So, not only will increased hospitality in your groups, generally understood, provide a place for visitors to stick due to warmness, invitation, and geniality, but teaching Mack’s model of biblically informed hospitality can empower and compel your group members to seek the lost and searching in their sphere of influence.
I strongly encourage you to read the entire article (it’s rather long) even if you need to read it across multiple days.
 

Hospitality: Compelled by the Gospel

By Paul Wilkinson

Hospitality in our groups cannot be neglected. We must create warm, welcoming communities that are ready and willing to receive visitors for the sake of discipling them in the Gospel.
Check out this great article by Michael Kelley, who argues that hospitality is countercultural in the modern West and difficult for some of us, yet hospitality was a core essential for the New Testament Church, as it should be for us today.