Worship Series Planner | Week 3

WORSHIP SERIES PLANNER | WEEK 3

Theme | Hospitality Offered to a Stranger is Hospitality Offered to Christ Scripture | Matthew 25:35-40 [ when I was hungry… ] Sermon Title | Radical Hospitality | Entertaining Strangers = Entertaining Jesus Desired Outcome | Congregants will seek to help and build relationships with those they don’t know

Sermon Building Key Points • Just how far would you go to help a stranger? • Tell personal story of when a stranger helped you • How radical is our hospitality to those we don’t know? • When we respond to someone in need we are responding to Christ • Entertaining a stranger is equivalent to entertaining Jesus • Christian hospitality is the active desire to invite, welcome, receive and care for those who are strangers so that they find a spiritual home and discover an unending life in Jesus Christ • Who are the strangers we encounter but overlook? • When we build a relationship with someone they cease to be a stranger • Call to action: Learn the name of someone you don’t know and begin to listen to his or her story. See this person as not only loved by God, but loved by God through you. Seek to demonstrate genuine love to those who are not part of your faith community.

Prayer for the Week Dear God, help me to recognize you in each person I serve. Amen.

Daily Readings for Week 3 Monday • Hebrews 13:2-4 Tuesday • Genesis 18:1-21 Wednesday • Leviticus 19:34 Thursday • Matthew 10:40-42 Friday • Deuteronomy 10:17-21 Saturday • Matthew 18:1-5

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Suggested Video • The Labels We Carry | by Beecher Feature Productions

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