Can sharing coffee and other forms of hospitality in the church help a congregation grow? Coffee won't do it alone, but biblical hospitality will. In this exciting book you'll come to understand how the congregation which embraces hospitality always grows in vitality and in numbers. You'll learn the biblical and historical basis for hospitality and also come to understand: hospitality to strangers; hospitality to children and youth; hospitality to church members; hospitality to those who make us uncomfortable; physical facilities and hospitality; and styles of worship and hospitality. "Widening the Welcome" includes a study guide ideal for individual, small group, and congregational reflection.

Widening the Welcome of Your Church: Biblical Hospitality & the Vital Congregation

Religion & Spirituality

Bernhard, Fred

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Community

This is a book about making friends and sharing faith. It’s also about sock balls, bloodsuckers, an epidemic of loneliness, and the RSVP Bible.It’s about not grabbing people by the head, not lying to ourselves as we tell the truth, not being a coward, and not letting the bad stories carry the day.It’s about crucifying our excuses. It’s about showing hospitality, paying attention, and embracing risk. It’s about building real relationships and loving people and sharing Jesus.And it’s a little bit about a homeless man named Mona Lisa.Authors Jeremy Ashworth and Fred Bernhard are pastors. Both are nice; neither is famous.If you want to know the story behind the photos on the front and back covers of this book, visit www.e3ministrygroup.com.

Outrageous and Courageous

New Age & Spirituality

WestBow Press

Since the events of September 11, 2001, we have been living in a time of greatly increased fear. Even before that fateful day, we were bombarded with news of threatening and disconcerting events, including crime, school violence, political scandal, and rapid societal change. Now we live with the threat of terrorism as well. 
In this book, the authors show that the answer to fear is not turning inward but turning outward. Learning to recognize the presence of Christ in others can have a liberating impact on all that we do and can enable us to move past the fears which threaten to immobilize us. 
This book explores: the biblical and spiritual roots of hospitality as a way of life; how hospitality can pull us through the loneliness and fear of our time; how a life of prayer is essential to a life of hospitality; how hospitality can help us cope with increased security; how hospitality affects our family life and friendships; how hospitality affects what we do in the workplace and in the community; how hospitality relates to the suffering of the world.

Hospitality: Life in a Time of Fear

Clapp, Steve

LifeQuest

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