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People Skills #2
February 20, 2022 / Kevin Beachy / Hope ChurchPEOPLE SKILLS #2
We are who we spend time with.
Created to thrive in relationship with each other.
Hospitality – inviting people into our lives – the practice of opening up your life, your space, and your time to people.
- We struggle with it because we never think we are enough.
Romans 12:12-13 Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble and keep on praying. When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality.
- The best thing you have to offer the people in your life is your actual life.
Entertaining Hospitality
Focuses attention on self Focuses attention on others
Always thinking about the next course Burns the rolls
Obsesses over what went wrong Savors what was right
Says it was really nothing Thinks it was really nothing
Seeks to impress Seeks to bless
HOW DO WE BEGIN TO LIVE THIS OUT PRACTICALLY
1. OPEN UP YOUR CALENDAR
2. OPEN UP YOUR PLACE
3. OPEN UP YOUR LIFE
Romans 12:9-12 And so, dear brothers and sisters I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other. Never be lazy but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble and keep on praying. When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality.
Jesus is our best example of what true hospitality looks like.
John 13:1-5 Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end. It was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God. So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.