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Hospitality

What are the biblical and theological roots of a Christian focus on hospitality? What does hospitality mean in a Christian context, and why was table fellowship so important to Jesus? How does the practice of Christian hospitality relate to tolerance?

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Lesson 1

A House

Explore how a focus on hospitality can help us imagine our role in the public square. Students explore the images of walls (safety), doors (openness), and tables (hospitality) as a scaffold for thinking about differences.

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Lesson 2

Character, Hospitality and Citizenship

In this lesson, students explore and compare the qualities that make for a good human, a good citizen, and a person who evidences the fruits of the Spirit spoken of in Galatians 5.

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Lesson 3

Jesus at the Table

In this lesson, students explore how Jesus interacted with a range of others as he ate with them before applying what they have learned to a small personal interview setting.

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Lesson 4

Tolerance, Hospitality, and Government

In this lesson, students examine positive and negative treatments of the role of government in the Bible and relate them to a case study of government response to contentious diversity.

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Lesson 5

Table Fellowship

Students plan and host a meal for diverse guests at which faith and politics are discussed and debrief afterwards to promote experience-based reflection on hospitality and differences.

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