2. Part 7 of Mission, Vision and Values

3. Our Mission Meeting people where they are; traveling with them to where Jesus is leading.

4. Our Vision We seek to glorify God by being a Christ- centered church that loves and serves others through the empowering of the Holy Spirit.

5. Our Values Powerful Prayer Authentic Relationships Transforming Grace Radical Generosity Intentional Hospitality Creative Outreach

6. Our Values Powerful Prayer Authentic Relationships Transforming Grace Radical Generosity Intentional Hospitality Creative Outreach

7. Our Values Intentional Hospitality

8. Matthew 9:9-13

9. Intentional Hospitality 1. You are invited

10. Personal Invitations are POWERFUL

11. Why I.... Joined my first small group Played rugby at Miami University Began teaching a high school Sunday school class Joined a fraternity Preached my first sermon Moved to Logan County to plant Quest Began coaching wrestling Attended an Emmaus Walk Worked on an Emmaus Walk Taught church planting classes

12. Why I.... Joined my first small group Played rugby at Miami University Began teaching a high school Sunday school class Joined a fraternity Preached my first sermon Moved to Logan County to plant Quest Began coaching wrestling Attended an Emmaus Walk Worked on an Emmaus Walk Taught church planting classes

13. The Church Next Door by Dr. Thom Ranier Eighty-two percent of the unchurched are at least somewhat likely to attend church if invited. Ninety-eighty percent of church- goers never extend an invitation in a given year.

14. How many of you came to Quest because you were invited by someone?

15. Intentional Hospitality 1. You are invited 2. You are welcomed here – You are safe here – You are accepted here

16. Maslow’s Heirarchy

17. Jesus accepts sinful and “sin-filled” people, without ever accepting their sin.

18. John 4:4-19

19. Intentional Hospitality 1. You are invited 2. You are welcomed here You are safe here You are accepted here 3. You belong here (You deserve “a place at the table”)

20. Scott McConnell, LifeWay Research Thirty–five percent [of those who don’t go to church] indicated that they would be inspired to attend church “if I knew there were people like me there.”

21. True Biblical hospitality required that you would do things in the “best interest” of your guest. Feed the guest Give the guest shelter Protect the guest

22. If we practiced true Biblical hospitality then when a guest came to stay we would: Give them our car to use Give them our bed Allow them to use: OUR TOOTHBRUSH!!!

23. If Quest wants to practice true hospitality we must do things in the best interest of those who have come here.

24. Intentional Hospitality 1. You are invited 2. You are welcomed here You are safe here You are accepted here 3. You belong here. (You deserve “a place at the table”) A place to grow spiritually A place to be challenged