Shout Out for Camp
It is so great to be here with you all this morning. I have to do a quick shout out to all the blue shirts. So everybody who went to camp, or spoke at camp or helped out with camp. Can you all just stand up for a second? You don’t have to have your blue shirt on. I just have to give a shout out. These kids and all through out the audience. They are amazing. And they just had a week at camp. They loved well. And they served well and the encouraged well. And they worshiped well. So for you parents out there, way to go. You are raising really great humans. And for you as a church, get excited. There is an mighty army rising up that loves Jesus.
I have to shout out to the adults too. We may not have gotten all of our beauty rest. And we may have yelled until we lost our voices during lip sync. We also got to make really strong connections with these kids. Reflect with them. Be inspired by them. Thank you to all the adults too.
What is Radical Hospitality
So this morning, I’m going to talk to you about something that is really convicting and exciting and scary for me. And that is radical hospitality. I’m not getting to talk to you about it because I’ve really nailed the practice of daily radical hospitality. In fact, studying for this has convinced me that I’m really just starting to understand what it means. What I can say without a doubt, is that I believe this Acts II radical hospitality that we are going to talk about has the power to change the world. I am excited to get to share with you a little bit. So Acts II this is going to be our main verse.
We are sticking with the Acts, Church on Fire theme. So Act II verses 32 – 34. All of God’s believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions were their own. But they shared everything. With great power the apostles testified to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. God’s grace was so incredibly powerful within them that no persons were needy among them. This is mind blowing stuff. They shared everything. They had no one had any need among them. Sometimes it would be a lot easier to skip over verse like this. The great accountability it calls us into. It might be easier to say this is just something the early church experienced but this is the church we model ourselves after. This is the church we say we are trying to emulate. This is the church that Jesus established and sealed with the ultimate act of hospitality…
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