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The Gospel-Shaped Life Podcast
044: Biblical Hospitality 101 with Jen Schmidt
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044: Biblical Hospitality 101 with Jen Schmidt

Jen Schmidt, author of the new book, Just Open the Door: How One Invitation Can Change a Generation,joins me on the Home and Hearth Podcast today to share all about the Biblical perspective on hospitality and how we can incorporate it into our everyday lives. Jen is a wife, mom of 5, speaker, and longtime blogger who is passionate about equipping women to just open the door. I know you will come away from today's episode feeling inspired and motivated to begin cultivating more hospitality into your daily life!

What we Chat about in This Episode

~Why Jen wrote a book on hospitality 

~A Biblical understanding of hospitality - what it is and why it is so important, and how to cultivate it into your everyday life

~Hospitality in the season of littles

~Tips for frugal hospitality

~Hospitality vs. entertaining

~Hospitality as a Biblical command

~How practicing hospitality impacts our children and legacy forever

~Diving deep into our everyday lives, in the season we are in, and being used by God to welcome people in

~Our families as our closest neighbors

~Welcoming people into our chaos

~The myth that our homes have to be perfect in order for us to practice hospitality 

~An amazing story of a life changed as a result of the ministry of hospitality

~On-the-go hospitality 

~A ministry of awareness and extending hospitality first to those within our own homes

~And more!

For full show notes, head to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast

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Beyond the Boxes
The Gospel-Shaped Life Podcast
The Gospel-Shaped Life Podcast (Formerly the Home and Hearth Podcast) is a weekly show hosted by Rebekah Hargraves and all about edifying, equipping, and encouraging women in their journey of living life in light of the gospel. If there is an issue that pertains to a woman's life, you will find it discussed here! We'll be covering everything from topics pertaining to marriage, motherhood, homemaking, and the Christian walk, to issues of health and fitness, infertility, adoption, chronic illness, and current event issues in the church and culture. It is our prayer that you will find an episode here which speaks directly to what you are going through right at this very moment and that you will receive the encouragement you need for your daily life.