B.L.E.S.S. - Love Your Neighbor, Change Your World (week 4)
September 30, 2021

Pastor Shane Bengry
10.03.2021

B.L.E.S.S - EAT

B - Begin with Prayer

L - Listen

E - Eat

S - Serve

S - Story

to BLESS your neighbors, Jesus invites you to eat with them

LUKE 5 (NIV)

27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. 29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you
eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

EATING WITH “SINNERS”
EATING with ONE ANOTHER
EATING with AN OTHER

ROMANS 12 (NIV)

9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. …. 13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

EATING/DRINKING = HOSPITALITY

  • AUTHENTICITY
  • ACCEPTING
  • FUN

“BELIEVERS THAT ARE BELIEVABLE”

  • HOSPITALITY
  • HOSPITAL
  • HOSPICE
  • HOSTEL

LUKE 5 (NIV)

31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” 33 They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.” 34 Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? 35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”