1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, I won't leave the hat on. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:05,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I just say happy birthday America. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:06,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How's that? 4 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:07,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh 5 00:00:09,380 --> 00:00:19,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: After the uh religious liberty video, I was thinking I should change my sermon. 6 00:00:19,140 --> 00:00:19,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:31,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um didn't know if I should change it and speak on uh Revelation 13 uh or speak about uh religious liberty or talk about uh 8 00:00:34,180 --> 00:00:38,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The United States of America, how blessed we are to live here. 9 00:00:39,540 --> 00:00:42,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, Amen is correct. 10 00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:44,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Talk about a little bit about our history. 11 00:00:48,579 --> 00:00:55,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Statue of Liberty, the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty begins with Give me your tired 12 00:00:55,820 --> 00:01:05,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these 13 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The homeless, the tempest tossed to me. 14 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:15,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. 15 00:01:17,820 --> 00:01:22,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, you can tell it's written by somebody else for us, right? 16 00:01:24,220 --> 00:01:29,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But for years we accepted that gift, lived by that 17 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:35,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Believed that, shouted that to the world. 18 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:40,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We accepted what another nation had clothed us with. 19 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:49,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. 20 00:01:52,380 --> 00:01:54,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is that the way we always feel? 21 00:01:56,860 --> 00:01:57,979 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Today? 22 00:01:57,979 --> 00:01:59,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know I'm getting political. 23 00:01:59,899 --> 00:02:01,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you say, stop that. 24 00:02:01,740 --> 00:02:04,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But this is part of the introduction, okay? 25 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We've been going through a series of one-anothering Bible texts. 26 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And if you were listening to the scripture reading, 27 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:21,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you understand where we are in our one-anothering Bible text series. 28 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:26,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Today's, uh it says it in the bulletin, I think, hospitality 101 29 00:02:28,980 --> 00:02:31,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Should I read it again? 30 00:02:31,220 --> 00:02:40,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Give me your tired, your poor, your idle masses, yearning to be breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore 31 00:02:40,820 --> 00:02:44,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Send these, the homeless, tempest toss to me. 32 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:49,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. 33 00:02:51,099 --> 00:02:58,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, somebody better have a little bit of hospitality to offer when they arrive. 34 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:13,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Many times as a pastor, I talked to my pastoral friends and and I listened to their sermons and their stories and 35 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:20,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: one of the questions that in conversation you have with people, you say, Well, what do you do? 36 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When someone asks as a pastor, well what do you do? 37 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, man. 38 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:35,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know what happens when I say I'm a pastor. 39 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:44,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, so many times when I those words come out of my mouth, it's like the person, what do I say now? 40 00:03:45,660 --> 00:03:48,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't know what to do with a pastor. 41 00:03:48,620 --> 00:03:52,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't know where to go with the conversation. 42 00:03:52,140 --> 00:03:56,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so, as pastors, we come up with kind of creative ideas. 43 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:57,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As to what to say. 44 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I told you about my father who met my neighbor one time. 45 00:04:00,799 --> 00:04:05,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And my father, after meeting my neighbor, my the neighbor asked my father, and what do you do? 46 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And my father says, I sell insurance. 47 00:04:08,140 --> 00:04:10,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, what kind of insurance do you sell? 48 00:04:10,060 --> 00:04:12,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, I sell fire insurance. 49 00:04:12,459 --> 00:04:18,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now remember, my dad's a pastor selling fire insurance. 50 00:04:18,020 --> 00:04:24,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He had heard the man say that he was in the insurance business, so Dad was trying to to make some connections there 51 00:04:26,220 --> 00:04:31,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I heard another pastor say to the answer to the question, and what do you do? 52 00:04:31,020 --> 00:04:34,139 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he said, I'm in the hospitality business. 53 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:41,479 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do you think if somebody says they're in the hospitality business? 54 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, what does that even mean? 55 00:04:48,220 --> 00:04:52,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does it mean when you say that you're in the hospitality business? 56 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:58,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, some of the things that come to your mind are do they work for a cruise ship 57 00:05:00,060 --> 00:05:03,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does that mean they know how to fold the towels? 58 00:05:03,820 --> 00:05:07,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, so they look like a monkey or an alligator or 59 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:11,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: they can, you know, hang them on the just right. 60 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:20,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They know how to do the toilet paper so that it's what's it mean to be in the the the hospitality business for the cruise ship 61 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:24,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does that mean they know how to give warm greetings? 62 00:05:24,220 --> 00:05:27,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does that mean they know how to do timely service? 63 00:05:27,260 --> 00:05:30,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does it mean in the hospital? 64 00:05:30,140 --> 00:05:32,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does it mean the hotel industry? 65 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:37,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean if you're in the hotel industry, you're in the hospitality industry. 66 00:05:37,140 --> 00:05:40,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does that mean that you're you're the doorman at the hotel? 67 00:05:40,020 --> 00:05:42,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does that mean that you are are are uh uh 68 00:05:42,980 --> 00:05:50,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the person that stands at the desk and and welcomes people, does that mean that you're you're in the the the breakfast buffet? 69 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:54,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does it mean if you are in the the hospital the restaurant? 70 00:05:54,580 --> 00:05:57,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are they in the hospitality business? 71 00:05:58,340 --> 00:06:02,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does it mean if you're in the hospitality business and you work at the re you're the matre D. 72 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:05,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How many are in your party? 73 00:06:05,940 --> 00:06:07,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm sorry. 74 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have a reservation? 75 00:06:12,039 --> 00:06:13,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Cheryl and I used to like it. 76 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We would go in there in Hanoi. 77 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We would go to one restaurant and we like to eat our our dinner a little bit early. 78 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're five o'clock, five thirty 79 00:06:21,940 --> 00:06:27,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oftentimes we would go to this one restaurant, and it was a rather large restaurant, and we would show up there between 5 and 5. 80 00:06:27,940 --> 00:06:31,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 30, and their first question was, Do you have a reservation? 81 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:34,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And our answer is, no. 82 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:36,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let me see. 83 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:41,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we would look at the restaurant and it's empty. 84 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:46,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I wonder what they we're not going to take up the whole restaurant. 85 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:46,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why do they 86 00:06:48,060 --> 00:06:52,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You kind of worried if I I was worried about their their hospitality there. 87 00:06:52,780 --> 00:06:58,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Their hospitality in the restaurant they're supposed to be welcoming and encouraging and and and trying to 88 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:00,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to to bring you in. 89 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you're in the hospitality, does that mean you're event planning? 90 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:08,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does that mean you're you're the host for weddings and and birthdays and anniversaries? 91 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You have uh an event, place, location that you are are 92 00:07:13,820 --> 00:07:15,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Managing? 93 00:07:15,420 --> 00:07:19,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does it mean to be in the hospitality business? 94 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:22,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Entertainment section. 95 00:07:22,060 --> 00:07:26,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Space, theme parks, recreational facilities. 96 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, you get started with some of these things. 97 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does it mean to be in the hospitality business? 98 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:38,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And why in the world would a pastor say, I'm in the hospitality business? 99 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:45,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is church in the hospitality business? 100 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:50,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, yeah, you probably wouldn't have come up with that on your own, would you? 101 00:07:55,440 --> 00:08:02,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When I say it, when the words come out of my mouth, you think, hmm, maybe we are 102 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:14,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, if you are in a church kind of like we are, where there are several Adventist churches around in the community, you can get to another one. 103 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oftentimes you will hear the phrase 104 00:08:17,860 --> 00:08:22,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're the friendliest church in the neighborhood. 105 00:08:22,740 --> 00:08:28,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I lived in another place far, far away that had lots of churches in the community. 106 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:34,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We had one that was a mile away and one that was a mile and a half away. 107 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:40,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I would often hear at those churches, we're the friendliest church around. 108 00:08:41,300 --> 00:08:46,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I wonder, are we the friendliest? 109 00:08:46,340 --> 00:08:48,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does it mean to be a friendly church 110 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:56,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why don't we change the word a little bit and say, we're the most hospitable church around? 111 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:03,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The reason we don't change that word is because that word we're the most hospitable church around. 112 00:09:03,380 --> 00:09:06,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: implies something we're not sure we want to mean. 113 00:09:06,740 --> 00:09:10,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so we use the word friendly. 114 00:09:10,580 --> 00:09:13,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because with friendly, I can get away with 115 00:09:15,060 --> 00:09:17,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hello. 116 00:09:17,459 --> 00:09:18,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hi. 117 00:09:18,420 --> 00:09:20,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Happy Sabbath. 118 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:21,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: See you later. 119 00:09:21,540 --> 00:09:23,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're a friendly church 120 00:09:24,180 --> 00:09:33,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But with a hospitable church, that entails a little bit more than sometimes we want to give. 121 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Peter 4 9. 122 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: See, I gotta make sure I'm at the right place. 123 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:50,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Offer hospity, hospitality to one another without grumbling 124 00:09:54,199 --> 00:10:00,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Boy, wouldn't it have been nice if Peter had just stopped with offer hospitality to one another? 125 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We may get back to that one. 126 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:06,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Romans chapter twelve. 127 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:11,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul writes, Share with the Lord's people who are in need. 128 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Practice hospitality. 129 00:10:15,580 --> 00:10:22,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These are are God's servants riding to the churches to practice hospitality. 130 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:25,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Third John chapter one, verse eight. 131 00:10:26,180 --> 00:10:34,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We ought to therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth. 132 00:10:34,620 --> 00:10:45,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, once you notice, John, Peter, and Paul are all telling the church to practice, to perform. 133 00:10:46,140 --> 00:10:47,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: hospitality. 134 00:10:47,580 --> 00:10:51,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John here says, so that you may work together for the truth. 135 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:56,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is to be hospitable to those people that are coming and sharing the good news. 136 00:10:56,660 --> 00:11:02,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because if you're hospitable to them, it's as if you are sharing the good news yourself. 137 00:11:02,740 --> 00:11:08,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can get in on the on the practice of of sharing Jesus with others. 138 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:12,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ah how'd I get that in there twice? 139 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:13,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I guess I'm good. 140 00:11:13,620 --> 00:11:17,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We'll go Hebrews thirteen two. 141 00:11:17,060 --> 00:11:20,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some thought I should use this as my scripture reading. 142 00:11:20,420 --> 00:11:23,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do not forget to show hospitality. 143 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:35,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it 144 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: No, I kind of like this text. 145 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:42,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This text is interesting to me. 146 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:43,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you 147 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:54,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you're reading it with just a little bit of Greek, you know the word hospitality comes from the word philosophers. 148 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:59,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, most of us, we know the word filio. 149 00:11:59,460 --> 00:12:02,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: From the word Philadelphia, what's that mean? 150 00:12:03,460 --> 00:12:06,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Phileo means to to love 151 00:12:07,540 --> 00:12:17,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We in our society today, we've heard the word xenos a little bit in our society, in our culture today, but it's often not connected with phileo. 152 00:12:17,460 --> 00:12:19,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's connected with xenophobia. 153 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We know what phobia is, right? 154 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:24,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fear. 155 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:27,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that word xenos means the stranger. 156 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So that's to be afraid of strangers 157 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Scripture doesn't say to be afraid of strangers. 158 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does Scripture tell us to do? 159 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:41,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The word for hospitality means to love strangers. 160 00:12:43,900 --> 00:12:45,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now go back to Hebrews there. 161 00:12:45,900 --> 00:12:48,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice the writer of Hebrews. 162 00:12:48,460 --> 00:12:52,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I like to think that's Paul, but some of you may disagree with that 163 00:12:52,460 --> 00:12:57,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But notice the writer of Hebrews says, do not forget to show hospitality. 164 00:12:57,820 --> 00:12:59,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's the word for hospitality? 165 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:02,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Love strangers. 166 00:13:02,540 --> 00:13:08,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then he adds again to strangers. 167 00:13:08,459 --> 00:13:11,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to make sure that we understand 168 00:13:13,140 --> 00:13:25,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To love strangers, to show hospitality to strangers, because in so doing you may be showing hospitalities to angels 169 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:28,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And not even be aware of it. 170 00:13:34,899 --> 00:13:42,819 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we ready to be a church that says, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free 171 00:13:43,020 --> 00:13:52,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, the tempest toss to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door 172 00:13:54,920 --> 00:14:01,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we ready to post such words outside the church and say, this is our motto? 173 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is our mission statement. 174 00:14:06,980 --> 00:14:10,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To love strangers 175 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to turn the screws just a little tighter. 176 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is especially for elders. 177 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But it's not just elders. 178 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I believe in the in scripture when you look at this. 179 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is talking about the leadership of the church. 180 00:14:29,140 --> 00:14:30,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The leadership. 181 00:14:32,820 --> 00:14:35,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Timothy chapter 3. 182 00:14:36,340 --> 00:14:38,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Boy, I put that on the little font there. 183 00:14:38,180 --> 00:14:40,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I can't read that myself, so I'm gonna have to 184 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:44,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Give me a moment. 185 00:14:45,300 --> 00:14:53,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You may be able to see it, but uh First Timothy chapter 3 verse 2, talking to the elders, it says 186 00:14:53,620 --> 00:15:06,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A bishop or an elder says must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach, and it continues on 187 00:15:07,140 --> 00:15:12,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want you to see that it says for elders, they are supposed to be hospitable. 188 00:15:12,820 --> 00:15:16,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why would church leadership, why would Paul say, 189 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:19,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Church leadership is supposed to be hospitable. 190 00:15:19,860 --> 00:15:24,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says it not just here in Timothy, but in Titus, he says it again. 191 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:30,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In Titus chapter one. 192 00:15:30,399 --> 00:15:32,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, I'm turning to it again. 193 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:33,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This'll be a lesson. 194 00:15:33,279 --> 00:15:34,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let's see if I learn it 195 00:15:35,460 --> 00:15:38,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Titus chapter 1, it's talking to the elders again. 196 00:15:39,140 --> 00:15:46,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, to be hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled. 197 00:15:47,380 --> 00:15:52,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is an admonition to the elders, to the church leadership. 198 00:15:52,740 --> 00:15:57,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church needs to be a place of hospitality 199 00:15:58,020 --> 00:16:01,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It needs to be led by people that are hospitable people. 200 00:16:04,340 --> 00:16:11,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church needs to be, dare I say, in the hospitality business. 201 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:16,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you part of the church? 202 00:16:18,260 --> 00:16:19,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who, me? 203 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:20,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, thank you. 204 00:16:20,020 --> 00:16:21,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I got a yes there. 205 00:16:21,140 --> 00:16:22,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're part of the church. 206 00:16:22,340 --> 00:16:24,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What business are you in 207 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:30,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hospitality. 208 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:34,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, if I stop here for just a moment and ask you to shout out examples from the Bible 209 00:16:36,540 --> 00:16:39,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think I know what you're gonna say first. 210 00:16:40,540 --> 00:16:44,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Abraham, because I brought up that one about entertaining angels, right? 211 00:16:44,740 --> 00:16:59,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now Abraham there in in in Genesis went out and he he called the Lord and the angels that were with the Lord to come into his tent, and he showed them hospitality. 212 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:05,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In the next chapter, Lot goes out to the angels that show up at Sodom. 213 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:11,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Lot shows the angels hospitality and calls them 214 00:17:11,919 --> 00:17:19,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: into his home to protect them from whatever lived in Sodom. 215 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:26,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Little did he know that by protecting those angels he was protecting himself. 216 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:34,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think about Rebecca. 217 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You ever think about Rebecca and the 218 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:44,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well Eliezer was going to look for a bride for for Isaac. 219 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:46,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What did she do? 220 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She watered his camels. 221 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Think about offering a cup of water to someone as a 222 00:17:56,820 --> 00:18:01,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: sign of hospitality, how much more so to to water the camels. 223 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:07,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They tell us that if a camel has been traveling for what they we think that a tra camel would be traveling for 224 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:15,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for a time like that, that camels would be in the habit of drinking somewhere between twenty to thirty gallons of water. 225 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:27,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can you imagine having to draw thirty gallons of water for ten camels 226 00:18:32,060 --> 00:18:39,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, you talk about being hospitable, I guess that shows up in the area of hospitality. 227 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:48,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think about the woman who who who hosted Elijah and continued to to feed him with 228 00:18:48,260 --> 00:18:57,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the the last little bit of flour that she had, the last little bit of oil that she had, and continued to feed him, and continued to feed him, and continued to feed him. 229 00:18:57,539 --> 00:19:00,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And this hospitality went on and on. 230 00:19:00,820 --> 00:19:01,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 231 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:08,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, our text said there in 1 Peter, continue with hospitality with what? 232 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:11,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Without grumbling. 233 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you realize how hard that is? 234 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:17,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To do it without grunt. 235 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:26,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, sometimes we do it because the pastor stood up front, he preached a sermon about it, he stepped on our toes, and so, oh man. 236 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay. 237 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:34,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we step out and we do it. 238 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:41,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And as soon as we don't have to be hospitable anymore, oh boy, we let everybody know how 239 00:19:42,340 --> 00:19:44,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That hurt us. 240 00:19:44,179 --> 00:19:49,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That damn how how uncomfortable that was for we tend to 241 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:57,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: grumbled about do you think she grumbled about having to take care of Elijah? 242 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:04,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or do you think this having to take care of Elijah became a a testimony of God's providence? 243 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:10,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A testimony of God's love, his care, his concern. 244 00:20:10,679 --> 00:20:16,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A testimony of how God wanted to open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing. 245 00:20:24,260 --> 00:20:25,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, it's on the screen. 246 00:20:25,539 --> 00:20:26,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can read it there. 247 00:20:26,340 --> 00:20:27,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna read it for you 248 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Adventist Home, page four hundred and fifty. 249 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:35,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh man, if you want to read about hospitality, go to the book Adventist Home. 250 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's a chapter there towards the end of it on on hospitality. 251 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But look at this paragraph it says. 252 00:20:42,220 --> 00:20:51,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Christ keeps an account of every expense incurred in entertaining for his sake 253 00:20:52,380 --> 00:20:58,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He supplies all that is necessary for this work. 254 00:20:58,460 --> 00:21:02,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those who for Christ's sake entertain their brethren 255 00:21:02,540 --> 00:21:14,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: doing their best to make the visit profitable both to their guests and to themselves, are recorded in heaven as worthy of special blessings. 256 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:21,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, we need to highlight that one, don't we? 257 00:21:21,340 --> 00:21:27,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says there, Christ keeps an account of every expense incurred. 258 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:34,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's as if we are laying up treasures in heaven. 259 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He knows. 260 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:48,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, the biggest excuse I hear from people, I can't be hospitable, we We don't have the means to do that. 261 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Think about what you're saying for just a minute, okay? 262 00:21:55,120 --> 00:22:00,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The disciples came to Jesus and said, These people need to eat 263 00:22:02,299 --> 00:22:07,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Jesus says to them, Feed them 264 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't have enough food to feed them. 265 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can we send them to the villages around here? 266 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:18,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Jesus says to the disciples, No, you feed them 267 00:22:20,580 --> 00:22:26,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All we have here is five loaves, two fish. 268 00:22:26,980 --> 00:22:28,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What is that? 269 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:31,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For so many. 270 00:22:31,380 --> 00:22:36,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And what does Jesus do? 271 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:39,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can Jesus still work miracles today 272 00:22:44,020 --> 00:22:50,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I was listening to someone talking about hospitality and they told the story about a 273 00:22:51,460 --> 00:22:57,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A couple told the story about how they had visited a church and it was a very nice church. 274 00:22:57,620 --> 00:23:05,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They enjoyed church, but after church that there was a family that invited them to their house to eat. 275 00:23:05,419 --> 00:23:07,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because no one else invited them. 276 00:23:07,340 --> 00:23:11,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There was they just got to talking and and no one else had invited this couple home. 277 00:23:11,820 --> 00:23:20,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so this family invited them home and they said, We went to their house and they served us. 278 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:25,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Breakfast cereal. 279 00:23:25,020 --> 00:23:30,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we knew right then and there that they were hospitable 280 00:23:31,060 --> 00:23:40,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because they cared more about us and our relationship than they did of making sure everything was perfect. 281 00:23:40,780 --> 00:23:43,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, Jesus could have. 282 00:23:43,260 --> 00:23:45,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Think about what Jesus could have done. 283 00:23:45,340 --> 00:23:47,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus could have provided 284 00:23:47,919 --> 00:23:50,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: grapes for everybody in the multitude. 285 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:52,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He could have provided pomegranate. 286 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He could have provided olives for all of them. 287 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:56,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean this was 288 00:23:56,820 --> 00:24:00,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This was the right place, the right culture to provide such things. 289 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:03,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But what does Jesus provide for them 290 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:13,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The simple the common, the the the ordinary 291 00:24:15,659 --> 00:24:19,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not something something extra special. 292 00:24:19,899 --> 00:24:24,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: With a little bit of I'm I talking about there, we don't have the right stuff. 293 00:24:24,779 --> 00:24:26,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm I'm talking that's one of the excuses. 294 00:24:26,940 --> 00:24:27,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: People 295 00:24:27,460 --> 00:24:34,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The second excuse that people use is I don't know what to talk to people about. 296 00:24:34,820 --> 00:24:38,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm just going to tell you with just a little bit of preparation 297 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I mean little bit of preparation. 298 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:45,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can send me an email and I can send you like fifty questions to get you started. 299 00:24:46,540 --> 00:24:52,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I can give you some questions and coach you and tell you how to start conversations with people. 300 00:24:52,940 --> 00:24:58,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You just ask some people the right question and they'll just carry on. 301 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:03,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You ask them, I I wrote a couple of them down. 302 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:07,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can you tell me what your favorite car has been through in your life? 303 00:25:07,980 --> 00:25:12,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, you asked some men what this question you may not 304 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Your eyes are gonna glaze over when they start answering. 305 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You ask them, what's the best book you've ever read? 306 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, I know there may be some people that just give you a one-word answer. 307 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:27,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I understand that. 308 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You ask them, what's your favorite teacher? 309 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What'd you like about him? 310 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:39,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These kind of questions get you get you get you going. 311 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's the favorite vacation that you've taken? 312 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What hobbies do you have? 313 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's the thing you're looking forward to the most within the next year? 314 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:49,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it continues on. 315 00:25:49,660 --> 00:25:52,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna tell you the University of Kansas. 316 00:25:52,220 --> 00:25:54,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They did a little bit of research about uh 317 00:25:55,140 --> 00:25:58,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: developing relationships, making friends. 318 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:04,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they said to make a casual acquaintance, a casual acquaintance, a casual friend 319 00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:11,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You need at least 40 to 60 hours together to make a casual friend. 320 00:26:11,159 --> 00:26:13,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of us have a long way to go, don't we? 321 00:26:16,220 --> 00:26:21,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Eighty sorry, eighty to a hundred hours if you want a regular friend, a good friend. 322 00:26:21,260 --> 00:26:25,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Two hundred hours if you want it to be your best friend, a close friend. 323 00:26:26,940 --> 00:26:37,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you want a, the words that I heard were, if you want a relationship that is strong enough that it can bear the weight of truth. 324 00:26:38,340 --> 00:26:48,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of us try to bear the weight of truth at casual friendships, and when we try and bear the weight of truth at casual friendships, it does not bear the weight. 325 00:26:48,899 --> 00:26:52,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then we are worried, Why don't I have any friends? 326 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:58,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's because we share the truth too soon. 327 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to build a relationship. 328 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to practice hospitality 329 00:27:07,179 --> 00:27:10,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I come back to that practicing hospitality. 330 00:27:12,140 --> 00:27:16,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse ch Peter, 1 Peter 4, verse 9. 331 00:27:16,380 --> 00:27:19,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Offer hospitality without grumbling. 332 00:27:21,260 --> 00:27:24,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know how easy it is to grumble? 333 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:34,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, sometimes when we offer hospitality, I remember when our kids were were young and our our children were not always excited about us bringing 334 00:27:35,159 --> 00:27:38,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: guests to the house. 335 00:27:38,519 --> 00:27:44,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church we were first in, we had fellowship dinner uh once a month 336 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:52,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We had two churches, had once a month at another church that left two Sabbaths where we could invite people over. 337 00:27:52,460 --> 00:27:54,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We often had people over in our homes. 338 00:27:56,559 --> 00:28:02,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Cheryl worked really hard with our children to get them to enjoy having people over. 339 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:07,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I remember that she made a gift box. 340 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And inside that box it was had nice wrapping paper. 341 00:28:12,279 --> 00:28:15,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Inside the box she had gifts 342 00:28:16,060 --> 00:28:27,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh, you know, went to the dollar store or went to a thrift store or found some things that she thought children might like or or people might like, and she put gifts inside the box. 343 00:28:28,140 --> 00:28:33,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But then she put our children in charge of that gift box. 344 00:28:33,660 --> 00:28:41,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And our children at the just the right time, they we would okay now, and we would give them the signal and they would say 345 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have a gift for you. 346 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you get to put your hand inside the box. 347 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:50,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And if you're lucky, we'll open the top of the box and you can look at what's in there. 348 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you can choose something out of the gift box. 349 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know what that did to grumbling from our children? 350 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That stopped it. 351 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All of a sudden they had a reason for living. 352 00:29:06,220 --> 00:29:10,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For having people over to the house. 353 00:29:10,460 --> 00:29:19,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They enjoyed having people over at the house because somebody had made a plan ahead of time 354 00:29:21,940 --> 00:29:26,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now sometimes we as a church we think we have a plan ahead of time 355 00:29:27,660 --> 00:29:30,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I've been to many churches and I I've seen the plan. 356 00:29:30,780 --> 00:29:32,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have potluck. 357 00:29:32,220 --> 00:29:34,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't like that phrase, that word. 358 00:29:34,460 --> 00:29:36,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have fellowship dinner. 359 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we have fellowship dinner. 360 00:29:38,039 --> 00:29:40,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We do it twice a month here at this church. 361 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I just talk about I'm not talking specifically about this church. 362 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm talking about Adventist churches that I have been in. 363 00:29:47,340 --> 00:29:58,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we have uh uh potluck and we go to potluck and we say we're so happy to have our guests here today, and we would like all our guests to come through line first. 364 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so we send our guests through line first. 365 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:09,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They go through line, they get their food, and then our guests sit down at a table, and all our guests are sitting at one table. 366 00:30:09,860 --> 00:30:20,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then the members go through line, and because the guests are all sitting at a table, our members, we sit and our friends we haven't seen since last week. 367 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:28,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we are sitting with our friends instead of with the guests. 368 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:33,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But we're hospitable because we provided potluck for them 369 00:30:34,580 --> 00:30:38,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know it's potluck sabbath, so you be listening to what I'm saying here, okay? 370 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:42,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wouldn't it be better? 371 00:30:42,620 --> 00:30:50,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we had an idea that we we sat down at tables before we went through line 372 00:30:51,300 --> 00:31:03,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then we were sitting at tables and we were were not knowing which one, I mean we know which one's guest and which one's not, but we're not just sitting in the order we come through line. 373 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:15,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We get to choose where to sit, and then somebody dismisses the tables, and then the guests actually get to sit with somebody that's a member. 374 00:31:15,519 --> 00:31:21,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh man, I'm gonna tell you, I've seen it work beautifully 375 00:31:24,580 --> 00:31:33,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the guests usually have this to say This is a very hospitable church. 376 00:31:34,740 --> 00:31:39,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I know what you're thinking, but Pastor, we only have potluck twice a month. 377 00:31:39,620 --> 00:31:43,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean fellowship dinner twice a month. 378 00:31:43,299 --> 00:31:44,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're right. 379 00:31:44,340 --> 00:31:46,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do we do the other weeks? 380 00:31:48,260 --> 00:31:56,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I've been in some homes and I know that there are people in homes that they have a nice place to to have three or four families together. 381 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:04,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What would happen if we had a plan as a church for for two families or three families to come together? 382 00:32:04,399 --> 00:32:11,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But then we said, okay, those two or three families are going to come together, they're each going to contribute to something, but they are looking for 383 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:21,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Strangers, Xenops to invite them 384 00:32:23,660 --> 00:32:25,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To be part of that group. 385 00:32:25,340 --> 00:32:30,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we had three or four of those happening every other week, 386 00:32:31,419 --> 00:32:35,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And if there were no guests, we can all cry. 387 00:32:35,899 --> 00:32:37,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, what a terrible Sabbath. 388 00:32:37,659 --> 00:32:38,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We had no guests. 389 00:32:38,940 --> 00:32:45,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or we can say, Hallelujah, I can invite one of my other church friends that I don't know very well. 390 00:32:45,940 --> 00:32:50,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we include somebody that wasn't prepared to be a guest that Sabbath. 391 00:32:50,260 --> 00:32:54,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it it How can we 392 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Raise the bar, so to speak, on our hospitality level 393 00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:14,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because while we may have the meet and greet, and I'm not talking bad about the meet and greet, that is good. 394 00:33:17,820 --> 00:33:24,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hospitality does not stop there. 395 00:33:24,620 --> 00:33:27,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What is the purpose of hospitality? 396 00:33:34,039 --> 00:33:39,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Christ's method alone will give true success in reaching the people 397 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:50,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Saviour mingled with men as one who desired their good, he showed his sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. 398 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then he bade them what 399 00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:59,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Follow me. 400 00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:08,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The purpose for hospitality is to build relationships so that we have a reason to call people to come and to follow Jesus. 401 00:34:09,940 --> 00:34:13,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our church, our our church family. 402 00:34:13,060 --> 00:34:14,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I've got news for you. 403 00:34:14,740 --> 00:34:17,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're in the hospitality business 404 00:34:25,579 --> 00:34:31,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's terrible when you go to a church and you read the rating that a church has 405 00:34:33,820 --> 00:34:41,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: on Yelp or Facebook or or whatever some of these other rating services. 406 00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:51,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And to read some of the comments about the church and to even read one negative comment hurts my heart. 407 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:01,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My thought is, oh, I sure am glad my church isn't like that. 408 00:35:01,359 --> 00:35:03,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I feel sorry for that place. 409 00:35:05,940 --> 00:35:10,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In Hanoi, the church there was always getting reviewed. 410 00:35:10,260 --> 00:35:15,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We had guests in that church every Sabbath. 411 00:35:15,740 --> 00:35:19,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And many of them left us a review. 412 00:35:19,420 --> 00:35:23,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And oh, it hurt sometimes when the review was negative. 413 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:30,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know it doesn't happen so much here, but I just want to tell you, it happens. 414 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it shouldn't. 415 00:35:34,779 --> 00:35:40,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, we as a church are in the hospitality business. 416 00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:47,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I know what you're thinking. 417 00:35:47,540 --> 00:35:53,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, Pastor, do something. 418 00:35:53,620 --> 00:35:54,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I did something 419 00:35:57,300 --> 00:36:02,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I reminded us the example of Jesus. 420 00:36:02,660 --> 00:36:05,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus is in the hospitality business 421 00:36:07,420 --> 00:36:14,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we are following the example of Jesus, we are in the hospitality business 422 00:36:18,580 --> 00:36:26,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There in Hanoi I had some some individuals there that were wanting to start a restaurant. 423 00:36:27,039 --> 00:36:34,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because they thought that was the way to meet people and and get to know people in the community. 424 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:39,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because that's what Ellen White says is one of the entering wedges. 425 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To get into a community. 426 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:50,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm telling you that because should we start a restaurant as an entering wedge to get into the community? 427 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have you ever been in the restaurant business? 428 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm telling you in the restaurant business, it's hard work. 429 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean hard work 430 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean sun up to sundown work. 431 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:13,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then after the sun goes down, you gotta prepare for when the sun comes up. 432 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I told him, you really don't want to start a restaurant. 433 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:25,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I they did it anyway. 434 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And God is blessing them. 435 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:37,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There are other ways to do hospitality than by starting a restaurant. 436 00:37:41,580 --> 00:37:49,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our purpose is to get to know people, to mingle with them, as one who desires their good 437 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus showed his sympathy for them, ministering to their needs. 438 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:58,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He won their confidence, and then he bade them follow me. 439 00:38:05,260 --> 00:38:08,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hospitality is a very broad concept. 440 00:38:09,860 --> 00:38:14,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It spreads across many different personal interactions. 441 00:38:14,980 --> 00:38:19,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It spreads across professional services that are offered. 442 00:38:19,940 --> 00:38:24,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It spreads across initiative industry and practices. 443 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:35,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Whether through a simple friendly smile, whether through a the handshake, w whether it's through the the vegetarian gourmet. 444 00:38:35,580 --> 00:38:39,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: buffet that we have for our fellowship dinner. 445 00:38:39,820 --> 00:38:41,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what I would call it. 446 00:38:43,420 --> 00:38:54,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Whether it's providing lodging, whether it's providing a unique experience for someone, hospitality creates memorable experiences for people. 447 00:38:54,680 --> 00:39:03,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they say, I like the way I felt when I was at that church. 448 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I like the way I felt when I was around those people. 449 00:39:12,539 --> 00:39:19,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As the family of God, we are in the hospitality business. 450 00:39:25,060 --> 00:39:28,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It takes all of us, not just one of us 451 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're the family of God. 452 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:40,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As his family, we need to be providing hospitality 453 00:39:42,599 --> 00:39:45,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For the stranger. 454 00:39:45,079 --> 00:39:49,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to be providing hospitality for one another 455 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I see the praise team coming up here. 456 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They're ready to sing. 457 00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:02,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I'll invite you to stand and sing, The Family of God. 458 00:40:02,839 --> 00:40:08,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But keeping in mind hospitality to one another