26th Week of the Year

H O S P I T A B L E

From your Pocket to your Heart!

Defined as ... Being courteous and being cordial with my conversation and my actions toward strangers.

“The best place to find a courteous hand is at the end of your own arm.”
~  Swedish Proverb  ~

“Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.”
~  James Cash Penney  ~

“Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.”
~  Justine Vogt  ~

HOSPITALITY EXEMPLIFIED

1. Widow Woman
(1 Kings 17:1-16)
2. Nabal vs Abagail regarding David
(1 Samuel 25)
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HOSPITALITY
SCRIPTURALLY TAUGHT

“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”
Galatians 6:10

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another … given to hospitality.”
Romans 12:10 & 13

Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.”
1 Peter 4:9-10

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
Hebrews 13:2

“Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.”
1 Corinthians 10:33