{"id":6127,"date":"2016-08-16T03:49:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/closed-for-dinner\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:01","slug":"closed-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/closed-for-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"CLOSED\n  FOR DINNER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Busyness; Community; Evangelism; Fellowship; Food; Friendship; Hospitality; Kindness; Loneliness; Time<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> John 13:35; Acts 2:42\u201347; Romans 12:13; 16:2\u20133; Ephesians 2:19\u201322; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Timothy 5:10; 1 Peter 4:9; 3 John 1:8<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>How hospitable are we? The following responses to the question \u201cHow often do you entertain guests for dinner?\u201d in a May 2005 survey are telling:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>once a week: 6 percent<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>once a month: 21 percent<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>more than once a month: 12 percent<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>a few times a year: 37 percent<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>rarely or never: 24 percent<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014<i>USA Today<\/i> \u201cSnapshots\u201d (June 6, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Busyness; Community; Evangelism; Fellowship; Food; Friendship; Hospitality; Kindness; Loneliness; Time References: John 13:35; Acts 2:42\u201347; Romans 12:13; 16:2\u20133; Ephesians 2:19\u201322; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Timothy 5:10; 1 Peter 4:9; 3 John 1:8 How hospitable are we? The following responses to the question \u201cHow often do you entertain guests for dinner?\u201d in a May 2005 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/closed-for-dinner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CLOSED<br \/>\n  FOR DINNER&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}