Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Grasp the importance of hospitality in the ancient world, including familiarity with Graeco-Roman and Hebrew sources

• Define “hospitality,” as it is understood in the New Testament, and articulate the purpose and consequences of engaging in hospitality

• Formulate a deeper understanding of who Jesus was and is through a comprehensive study of his own practice of hospitality, both during his time on earth and now as head of the church

• Explain how hospitality creates “sacred spaces” that facilitate the church’s worship of the Lord Jesus Christ

• Discuss the significance of meals in the ancient world and how meals in the church today can serve to further the spread of the gospel

• Articulate the unifying power of hospitality in the church to bring disparate groups of people together for the sake of the gospel

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

• Defining Hospitality

Unit 1: The Historical Context of Hospitality

• Introduction to Background Texts

• Homer’s Odyssey

• Dio Chrysostom’s The Hunter

• Ovid’s Metamorphoses

• Synthesis of Graeco-Roman Sources

• Hospitality in the Old Testament

• Abraham’s Hospitality

• The Hospitality of Lot and the Sodomites

• The Immigrant Patriarchs

• Hospitality in the Torah

• Summary Thoughts

Unit 2: Hospitality in Luke’s Gospel

• Overview of Hospitality in Luke

• Review of Divine Visitations

• Jesus, the Agent of God’s Visitation

• Jesus, the Journeying Stranger

• Responding to Jesus: Simon and the Sinful Woman

• Responding to Jesus: A Samaritan Village

• Responding to Jesus: Galilean Households

• Responding to Jesus: The Pharisees

• Responding to Jesus: Mary and Martha

• Responding to Jesus: Zacchaeus

• Jesus, the Divine Host

• Hosting the Eschatological Banquet

• The Messiah’s Food

• Proclaiming Yahweh’s Welcome

• Feeding the Multitudes

• Eating with Sinners

• Sharing the Last Supper

• The Guest Becomes Host

• Summary: Jesus as Host in Luke’s Gospel

• The Ethics of Jesus’ Hospitality

• Jesus’ Agents and Emissaries

• Being a Neighbor

• Eating Bread in God’s Kingdom

• True Sons of Abraham

• The Economies of Two Kingdoms

Unit 3: Hospitality in Acts

• Overview of Hospitality in Acts

• Extending Christ’s Table

• The Meals of the Early Church

• The Inclusion of the Gentiles

• Creating a Sacred Household

• The Conclusion of Acts

• Concluding Comments on Luke-Acts

Unit 4: Hospitality in John’s Gospel

• Overview of Hospitality in John’s Gospel

• Divine Revelation and Human Recognition

• Jesus as a Heavenly Stranger

• Providing New Covenant Wine

• Providing Living Water

• Providing Bread of Life

• The Foot Washing

Unit 5: Hospitality in Paul

• Overview of Hospitality in Paul’s Letters

• Meals in Corinth

• Celebrating Jesus’ Hospitality

• Implementing Jesus’ Hospitality

• Hospitality in Paul’s Mission

• Hospitality in Romans

• The Roman Church’s Hospitality

• Unity and Creating Kinship

Conclusion

• Concluding Comments

Details

• Title: NT391 Hospitality in the New Testament

• Instructor: Joshua Jipp

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2016

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 6