2. What Makes This Church Different?
Be Kind & Hospitable To One Another

3. What Makes This Church Different?
Be Kind & Hospitable To One Another
Be kind to one another.
Worldly kindness vs. Christian kindness.
Worldly kindness - because of who one is.
Christian kindness - because of who one can become.

4. What Makes This Church Different?
Be Kind & Hospitable To One Another
Be kind to one another.
Motive
Goal
Motive is found in our relationship with Jesus.
To lead someone into a deeper relationship with Jesus that changes him.

5. What Makes This Church Different?
Be Kind & Hospitable To One Another
Be kind to one another.
Components of kindness.
Tenderhearted, willing to forgive.
Sensitive and patient.
Compassionate.

6. What Makes This Church Different?
Be Kind & Hospitable To One Another
Be kind to one another.
Components of kindness.
Aimed at those who don’t deserve kindness.
It is a response to those who are naturally hard to be kind to.

7. What Makes This Church Different?
Be Kind & Hospitable To One Another
Be hospitable to one another.
Hospitality
Philoxenos
Brotherly love towards strangers.
brotherly love
stranger

8. What Makes This Church Different?
Be Kind & Hospitable To One Another
Be hospitable to one another.
Demonstrate brotherly love towards strangers.
Who is the “stranger”?
One who is different - marginalized, forgotten, difficult.

9. What Makes This Church Different?
Be Kind & Hospitable To One Another
Be hospitable to one another.
Demonstrate brotherly love towards strangers.
Why do this?
God has given us each other to help in overcoming sufferings, not succumbing to the ways of the world.

10. What Makes This Church Different?
Be Kind & Hospitable To One Another
Be hospitable to one another.
Motive
Goal
Motive is centered in gratitude for what Jesus has done for us.
To help each other draw closer to Jesus, demonstrating thankfulness to God.