Your guest’s first visit helps set up their second visit. Therefore, it’s essential and biblical that we connect hospitality and discipleship within our church services. 

Your guest’s first visit helps set up their second visit. Therefore, it’s essential and biblical that we connect hospitality and discipleship within our church services. 

On this week’s episode, N.C. Baptists’ Bradley Norris speaks with Danny Franks, pastor of guest services at The Summit Church, and Ashley Reffit, women’s discipleship consultant with N.C. Baptists. Listen as they discuss the importance of church hospitality and how churches should pay attention to details. 

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Podcast Highlights:

  • “The ‘what we do’ is not really our focus. It’s important to know someone’s name, it’s important to hold a door, it’s important to make someone feel welcome, but it’s important to do that because that’s the biblical command and how we should live our life as Christians.” (5:06)
  • “If hospitality is both an individual mandate and a corporate mandate that we’re given from Scripture, then it stands to reason that that is an entirely scaleable mandate as well.” (14:45)
  • “We can’t just say that we fall on the laurels of our own friendliness — we have to be very intentional in the process to help somebody who is on the outside feel like a part of the family.” (16:50) 

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by N.C. Baptist Communications