Week 48 GraceMen Weekly Update

This Week:
1. Prayer
2. Meditation
3. Quote
4. Events
5. Book Recommendation

Grace and Peace to you brothers.

As we enter week 48, our focus turns to the often-overlooked virtue of hospitality. True Christian hospitality goes far beyond sharing a meal or opening our homes - it reflects the generous heart of God Himself. Romans 12:13 calls us to “contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality,” reminding us that welcoming others is an act of spiritual service. This week, let your prayer be for a heart that gladly opens doors and extends grace, allowing others to encounter the love of Christ through your kindness and presence.

Prayer:

God, help me to be a man of hospitality, welcoming others. (Romans 12:13)

Romans 12;13:  Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Meditation: 

Reflect on ways you can practice greater hospitality as a man of God.

Quote:

Hospitality is not entertainment; it is welcoming the outsider at the gate and intentionally inviting that person into your life.   - Rosaria Butterfield

Events:

Tuesday - November 25, 2025

NO Morning Bible Study

Thursday - November 27, 2025

NO Evening Bible Study

Saturday - November 29, 2025

NO Study in Hosea

Book Recommendation:

The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World by Rosaria Butterfield

In an increasingly fragmented and post-Christian world, The Gospel Comes with a House Key offers a radical yet profoundly biblical antidote to isolation and skepticism: authentic Christian hospitality. Rosaria Butterfield’s extraordinary journey - from lesbian activist to devoted follower of Christ transformed through the simple act of shared meals - provides both a powerful testimony and a practical mandate for believers today.

This book challenges the Western church’s complacency by demonstrating that evangelism doesn’t require elaborate strategies or perfect conditions. Instead, it emerges naturally when Christians open their homes and lives to neighbors, strangers, and those who think differently, showing them the gospel through tangible love and genuine community. Through compelling real-life narratives - including dramatic encounters with a neighbor’s meth lab, foster care experiences, and deathbed conversions - Butterfield illustrates how hospitality heals the deepest wounds of human loneliness and opens hearts to spiritual transformation.

Whether you’re a pastor seeking to renew your congregation’s witness, a church member wondering how to live out your faith more meaningfully, or anyone yearning for deeper community, this book provides both inspiration and conviction. Butterfield doesn’t offer sentimental sentimentality but rather a courageous call to sacrificial living that makes Christ visible in an increasingly skeptical age. The Gospel Comes with a House Key will transform how you view your home and your neighbors - permanently.

In His Service,
GraceMen