Making a Bigger Table
Hospitality gets people in the door, but it’s inclusion that ensures they a sense of true belonging. Inclusion allows newcomers to share their gifts and change the culture of the church for the better.
Hospitality gets people in the door, but it’s inclusion that ensures they a sense of true belonging. Inclusion allows newcomers to share their gifts and change the culture of the church for the better.
Preaching from the Book of Ruth, Ruth 1:1-18: Orpah simply vanished into the mountains. Who was Orpah, and what does her absence from the Book of Ruth—the quintessential story of inclusion in the Hebrew Bible—mean to you and me? This is a sermon that will explore the outcast, forgotten, and silenced people who were once … Continue reading Orpah, Where Art Thou?
Sure, we come to church each Sunday to be a part of a larger community of faiths but ultimately, we are about more than just programming, We are a people learning from each other how to live among each other and sometimes that means learning new ways to love.