Hospitality & Community
On this week’s episode of The About Her Podcast, I chatted with my good friend Mojade. Mojade completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology with a Bible and Women’s Ministry Minor at Cedarville University. She is currently wrapping up a Master’s of Divinity in Women’s Studies through Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Mojade’s favorite passage of Scripture is 1 Corinthians 10:13. She is fun, funny, and a joy to listen to. I laughed often in this episode, and I know you will too. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Mojade as we chatted about hospitality, entertaining, singleness, and much much more.
Show Notes
In your own words, or in the words of someone you admire, how do you define hospitality?
What passages of Scripture inform your own understanding of biblical hospitality?
What motivates you to extend hospitality to others?
It is often easy assume that biblical hospitality and entertaining are synonymous. Are they really synonymous?
How might hospitality and entertaining appear similar on the surface? What makes them different?
Why do you think we often confuse hospitality and entertaining?
How would you respond to someone who might suggest that hospitality is limited to a meal together or a perfectly planned party?
How would you respond to someone who might suggest that hospitality is only successful if your home has an open-concept layout and is perfectly furnished, or that your tables-cape and charcuterie board are Pinterest or Instagram worthy?
What challenge or encouragement do you have for the single women listening to this podcast episode who desires to grow in the area of hospitality but maybe struggle with feeling limited in singleness?
What challenge do you have for married women who desire to grow in this area but have allowed a busy schedule or other distractions to limit their invitations to others?
What encouragement or suggestions would you have for someone who feels they just don’t have the financial means to host others in their home?
What are practical ways to begin cultivating the skills needed to host and extend hospitality?
What encouragement do you have for those of us who feel that we don’t have space to host others?
What encouragement or challenge do you have for those of us that feel caught up in our schedules and can’t seem to find the time to extend hospitality to others?
How can female believers redeem the desire to make things “pleasurable” for the purpose of glorifying God?
What are your top 3 event planning or event preparation tips for those of us who do find ourselves in these situations?
Notable Quotations
“Hospitality doesn’t have to be when I’m older or in a fancy house, it can be just as easily in my dorm room.”
“Hospitality is creating space in your life and being selfless and allowing people to enter in so that they can be loved on.”
“Hospitality is very much a selfless act.”
“Hospitality isn’t just in the home. It’s in other people’s homes, in coffee shops, in the dorm room, or even late night walks with friends.”
“Hospitality is really a mind-set and a heart-set.”
“Whenever we are loving somebody else or whenever we are taking care of people, not only are we doing it for that person, we are doing it for Christ. And also, we show Christ in those actions.”
“Whenever we make hospitality always equate to entertainment, we forget the heart of the other person. We are more worried about how good I look, and how great I throw a party, and we forget about how we can serve the other person in this time.”
“It’s cool when you have the opportunity to feed people, but sometimes it’s enough to sit across the table and to just laugh and talk with one another.”
“Sometimes hospitality needs nothing more than another person.”
“You can’t expect to just wake up one day and to be magically good at hospitality. You have to practice!”
“You learn by trying or by watching and learning from other people.”
“Practice may not make perfect, but it sure makes better, so continue practicing because that’s the only way that you are going to get better.”
“We are to create beautiful things but our number one focus is not ourselves or this selfish mentality. Our number one focus is to worship God because He is Creator God.”
“The best way for Christians to grow is by having relationships with one another and teaching one another.”
Scripture References
Titus 2
Matthew 25:31-40
Matthew 28:19-20
1 Corinthians 10:13
