Tired of the “institution” and looking instead for the simplicity of relational participatory church …

But your friends aren’t interested?

Consider opening your life, your home and your kitchen table to the lost, the unseen, the ignored, the marginalized, and the lonely.

After all, if your respectable friends aren’t interested in your hospitality, who does Jesus say to invite instead? The poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame …

Along with those living besides highways and hedges. Luke 14:12-24

If you know none, then get out of your comfort zones!

So go to the kinds of places Jesus went and reach out to the kinds of people with whom he hung …

Not through a “program” but with authentic friendship.

There is no true church, real faith, sacrificial love or advance of God’s Kingdom without hospitality – especially to those considered the least among us …

Not only by the world, but often by our own top-down, agenda-driven “churches.”

Rather than their impersonal “programs,” which try to help “outsiders” without truly embracing them but treating them as mere objects of “ministry” …

My wife and I have opened our home and table as places of hospitality over the years – offering respect, dignity, and genuine friendship to all who accepted our invitations to come.

As a result, fellowships emerged and lives transformed – including our own.

Hospitality: The missing ingredient.

Simple!