The calling of Jesus "requires" something of us – but not as a calling that simply takes something "from" us. Rather, the calling of Jesus requires something of us the way a seed requires water and sunlight.
Just like a seed requires water and sunlight to grow and flourish, Jesus requires us to become vulnerable. Jesus asks us to go into the places to be with people we could never imagine being with. Perhaps these risks we must take are the very things "required" for us to grow and flourish in the way of Jesus.
This last week of "The Host" is a culmination of conversations we have been having together for the past few weeks about hospitality, calling, and mission. However – beyond giving hospitality, answering calling, and responding to the mission of God – this calling of Jesus will always ask us to also be willing to receive the same hospitality from others.
These practices are not just about being "for" others and "for" God. These practices are about learning to be "with" others and be "with" God. These practices are about presence.
18 Oct 2026
The One Who is "Here"
The global Christian faith is built upon thousands of years of tradition and a history of people learning how to follow Jesus in their own places, times, and cultural contexts. However, this global movement of faith started in just one singular place... in Galilee, where Jesus was from.
Biblical scholars and historians estimate the vast majority of Jesus' life and ministry was spent in this small, singular part of the world, around a small handful of towns surrounding the Sea of Galilee. Years before Jesus' final journey to Jerusalem, most of the Gospel accounts take place in this tiny region of the world.
Jesus' life was profoundly local. He lived among a specific people, in a specific place, at a specific time.
For centuries, the mission and message of Jesus has called many believers to unknown destinations and distant lands. What if the calling of God is often much simpler? What if the calling of God asks us to start right where our feet already are?
11 Oct 2026
The One Who Says "Go"
In the Book of Matthew, Jesus commissions his disciples to "go and make disciples of all nations," but only after walking with them through years of ministry, healings, casting out demons, and demonstrating his love through death and resurrection. Before he says "make disciples," he promises his Spirit – and that this Spirit will go with them into "Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
As the disciples were empowered to go and "make disciples," some were tempted to ask, "who is the greatest among us?"
Jesus reveals this is the wrong kind of question to ask. Instead, Jesus invites his followers to embrace a new kind of power – a power not simply found the miracles, healings, or strength... but a power discovered in the midst of weakness.
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