{"id":32404,"date":"2021-03-29T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T01:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=32404"},"modified":"2021-03-29T20:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T01:45:25","slug":"be-hospitable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=32404","title":{"rendered":"Be Hospitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the title of the book, I couldn\u2019t help but laugh:\u00a0<em>Sorry, I\u2019m Late, I Didn\u2019t Want to Come: An Introvert\u2019s Year of Living Dangerously.\u00a0<\/em>I can relate. Connecting with people doesn\u2019t come easy for me. But I know that following Christ means being a part of a local church, and being a part of a local church means sometimes doing things that make you uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitality isn\u2019t easy, but God requires it. So let me encourage you to \u201clive dangerously\u201d by showing hospitality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New Testament makes a big deal of hospitality. Did you realize that? Paul includes hospitality in the list of the basics of the Christian life (Rom. 12:13; also 1 Peter 4:9). He says our elders or pastors must be characterized by it (1 Tim. 3:2), presumably so that they can set an example for the congregation. He says it should also characterize the older women in the church (1 Tim. 5:10), presumably for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitality is not the responsibility of extroverts but of\u00a0<em>every<\/em>\u00a0church member.<\/p>\n<p>Biblical hospitality means far more than cake and coffee after the evening service. Showing hospitality calls for an open home, an open schedule, an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitality is not the responsibility of extroverts but of\u00a0every\u00a0church member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[339,1556,327],"class_list":["post-32404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-church-membership","tag-hospitality","tag-life-together","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32406,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32404\/revisions\/32406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}