November 2024 Meetup

We live in an age far removed from that of our grandparents when it was common for neighbors to stop by any time or meet at each other's porches during family evening walks. What are the underlying reasons for this change? What does it mean for American society, and does the church have a responsibility, or sin, to tackle relative to this change?

Topic: Christian Hospitality

Discussion aids

Defining hospitality

Hospitality is not looking at your calendar and figuring out when you’ve got a little free time and shoving people into that because people’s crises don’t fit into your boundaries.
-- Rosaria Butterfield

Hospitality is not entertainment. It is not meant to show off what you know how to do well. Hospitality is living your transparent Christian life before a watching world that despises you.
-- Rosaria Butterfield

Defining neighbors

A neighbour; must be vnderstood as tou∣ching them, which by the will of God through a∣nie occasion doo méete, or be ioined vnto vs, or be commended vnto vs: be it by meanes of kindred, of friendship, or of méeting by the waie. We are accounted to be their neighbours, to whom God dooth associate, and ioine vs by anie maner of means.
-- Pietro Martire Vermigli, from The common places of the most famous and renowmed diuine Doctor Peter Martyr...

When & Where

11/21/2024 @ 7 pm

Rigby's Cigars & Lounge
10 N Plaza
Paris, TX 75460