Embracing Jesus-Style Hospitality: Service and Connection
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1) "Hospitality looks more and more to me like making space, creating and preserving space. Physical space, yes, a place at the table. This is your name. Yep, you're on the list. Go right in. So, it's physical space, you know, here's a bed with the little mints on it and a turndown, that sort of thing. But also a physical space, I mean a spiritual and emotional place, right? Like that place I was describing, we were all inhabiting around that living room where it felt good to be among friends. It felt safe, right? You could be yourself. So, space in those two senses." [49:33] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2) "There's something about extending that invitation. There's something about being the one who takes that first step. Have you ever been in a friendship or a relationship with somebody who always, you always have to take the first step? And after a while, you're like, I'm not doing it anymore. They want to talk, they can call me. And then you open up. You don't talk for a while. And then finally you break down. No hands. We don't have to see hands. There's something about love, right? The way Jeremiah describes it. He says, it's like a fire inside me. I'm weary of holding it in. I think sometimes the gift of hospitality works that way. And maybe hospitality doesn't keep count." [50:34] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3) "Leadership doesn't mean filling a space. Leadership means creating space. For everyone on the way, right? We've still got things to accomplish, right? In this case, the salvation of the world, fairly important. We're not going to let that slide off to the back. Which is something that sometimes we do, right? In order to be nice, we'll just forget whatever it was that we were doing." [56:22] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4) "And what the guest on this issue of or this podcast called The Hidden Brain said was that what we usually do is, faced with, with a deficit in one area or the other, and typically, let's say it's warmth, right? What we'll do is we'll take away from our sense of competence. So, like, one of the things we like to do is, I like to do this a lot, is make self -deprecating jokes. Here's one that you've heard from me. I'm late all the time. I'm not, actually. I'm a bus driver. I was also in the Navy for 10 years. And you go to jobs. You go to jail if you're late in that organization. You get fired if you're on a bus and you're late. Kids say that they can keep their watches by me. First time I heard one say that, I was like, That's true. But I make these self -deprecating jokes. And what the guest said was, if you do that, people assume, well, you're the expert on yourself. And so, I'm not going to argue with you. You must be. So, what we do is we sort of take away from one of these areas. In order to sort of compensate. She said, don't take away, add. In other words, you want to be more warm? You want to be more relatable? Be more warm and relatable. Go the extra mile. You know, extend the table, right? So, if someone is congratulating you on an accomplishment, right? Say, thank you, for one thing. Don't just put it off. But also say, and I could never have done it without the rest of the board. These wonderful people that God. God has allowed me and enabled me to work with, right? So, there's some different ways to go about doing that." [58:15] (105 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5) "Friends, may we go forth heeding and embracing the invitation of the Holy Spirit to take our place at the table of life. Be the gift to the world that God has created us to be. And, not but, also welcome strangers to sit at that table as well. They might just be the ones who welcome us home." [01:08:52] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2) "There's something about extending that invitation. There's something about being the one who takes that first step. Have you ever been in a friendship or a relationship with somebody who always, you always have to take the first step? And after a while, you're like, I'm not doing it anymore. They want to talk, they can call me. And then you open up. You don't talk for a while. And then finally you break down. No hands. We don't have to see hands. There's something about love, right? The way Jeremiah describes it. He says, it's like a fire inside me. I'm weary of holding it in. I think sometimes the gift of hospitality works that way. And maybe hospitality doesn't keep count." [50:34] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3) "Leadership doesn't mean filling a space. Leadership means creating space. For everyone on the way, right? We've still got things to accomplish, right? In this case, the salvation of the world, fairly important. We're not going to let that slide off to the back. Which is something that sometimes we do, right? In order to be nice, we'll just forget whatever it was that we were doing." [56:22] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4) "And what the guest on this issue of or this podcast called The Hidden Brain said was that what we usually do is, faced with, with a deficit in one area or the other, and typically, let's say it's warmth, right? What we'll do is we'll take away from our sense of competence. So, like, one of the things we like to do is, I like to do this a lot, is make self -deprecating jokes. Here's one that you've heard from me. I'm late all the time. I'm not, actually. I'm a bus driver. I was also in the Navy for 10 years. And you go to jobs. You go to jail if you're late in that organization. You get fired if you're on a bus and you're late. Kids say that they can keep their watches by me. First time I heard one say that, I was like, That's true. But I make these self -deprecating jokes. And what the guest said was, if you do that, people assume, well, you're the expert on yourself. And so, I'm not going to argue with you. You must be. So, what we do is we sort of take away from one of these areas. In order to sort of compensate. She said, don't take away, add. In other words, you want to be more warm? You want to be more relatable? Be more warm and relatable. Go the extra mile. You know, extend the table, right? So, if someone is congratulating you on an accomplishment, right? Say, thank you, for one thing. Don't just put it off. But also say, and I could never have done it without the rest of the board. These wonderful people that God. God has allowed me and enabled me to work with, right? So, there's some different ways to go about doing that." [58:15] (105 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5) "Friends, may we go forth heeding and embracing the invitation of the Holy Spirit to take our place at the table of life. Be the gift to the world that God has created us to be. And, not but, also welcome strangers to sit at that table as well. They might just be the ones who welcome us home." [01:08:52] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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