Hospitality
Hospitality Articles
The Essential List Of Supplies For a Hassle-Free Easter Service
This article is about the various supplies Lifeway has to offer, such as communion supplies, pamphlets, tracts, or seasonal supplies.
March 17, 2025
- Chasity Phillips
Through the Eyes of a Guest
What are your church guests experiencing when they visit? What do you want them to see and feel?
July 1, 2024
- Lifeway Staff
Jesus is Our Example of Christian Hospitality
Following Jesus includes following His practice of hospitality — joyous, authentic, generous, countercultural and hope-filled hospitality. When Jesus says, "Come follow me," He is calling us to follow His way of life, which includes opening up our homes, lives, and hearts to others.
October 11, 2021
How Is Hospitality Different from Entertaining?
Biblical hospitality offers our best to Him first, understanding that our best to others will then fall into place. It transforms our selfish motives and elevates our guest.
April 30, 2020
Kelly Minter Discusses Writing Her Cookbook and One of Her Favorite Recipes
For me, eating was often a social activity—a place to connect with others. My mom cooked all the time and, naturally, I wanted to be able to provide the same kind of experience for others that she provided for our family. The dinner table in our home was a mooring in which I always found a safe harbor.
September 30, 2019
10 Things Churches Can Do Better
When we asked hundreds of guests about their experiences visiting churches, it was not a pretty picture. We asked specifically why they did not return to a particular church. Here were their top ten responses. Excerpted from Becoming a Welcoming Church by Thom S. Rainer.
April 3, 2018
How to Change the World with Christian Hospitality
Practicing Christian hospitality is practicing servanthood. It's about loving others through Christ and making people feel special. When we open our hearts as well as our homes, we’re practicing biblical hospitality.
February 29, 2016
- Kathy Chapman Sharp
How to Practice Genuine Hospitality
Hospitality focuses on serving, encouraging, and giving value to others. In Christ we have the ability to love the unlovable. Whether we realize it or not, hospitality permeates our spiritual DNA. Though we may not excel at entertaining, every believer can show hospitality to others. We just need to recognize the difference between true hospitality and its cheap, exaggerated imitation.
March 5, 2013
- Jennifer McCaman
