HOSPITALITY GOALS
- To be a Meeting that welcomes and attracts newcomers from the community.
- To be a Meeting that exhibits contagious warmth and caring; one that includes rather than excludes, nurtures rather than censures.
- To promote an understanding of fellowship that enables members to care deeply for one another while they follow different leadings and carry a variety of concerns.
- To articulate and live a sense of responsibility and accountability to one another.
You are my friends, if you do what I command you. I call you servants no longer; a servant does not know what his master is about. I have called you friends, because I have disclosed to you everything that I heard from my Father. This is my commandment to you: love one another.
--- John 15: 14-17
“a countercultural social structure called church --- a place clearly visible to the world, in which people are faithful to their promises, love their enemies, tell the truth, honor the poor, suffer for righteousness, and thereby testify to the amazing community-creating power of God. ---- This church knows that its most credible form of witness is the actual creation of a living, breathing visible community of faith.”
From Resident Aliens by Hauerwas and Willimon
