Through The Eyes Of Jesus
Kentucky Refugee Ministries has helped welcome, resettle and support refugees in Kentucky for decades. In this special message, we’ll hear from KRM Staff about the reality of refugees in our city, and we’ll talk about how the Bible shows a God who stands with the vulnerable.
As we walk through the Christian year together, each season will be accompanied by a guiding question – a question to wrestle with, pray through, and bring to God. During the season of Epiphany, as we give our attention to our revelation of the son of God, we’re asking together: “How are we encountering Jesus?”
Read Leviticus 19:33-34. How does the remembrance of Egypt inform and empower the command to treat foreigners with equity and compassion? Why do you think this matters?
Read Hebrews 13:2. Hospitality literally means “love for the stranger.” As you consider the claim made by the author, how does this shape your understanding of what it means to be a welcoming Church?
Refugees and immigrants are obviously in the news on almost a daily basis. What are some of the practical ways we can be informed about the news without being engrossed in them?
We want to be a Church that is prepared not only to see “the least of these” through the eyes of Jesus, but to welcome them. How might we be a community that better serves the vulnerable among us?
Part of centering Jesus is learning to see our world through him.
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:33-34 NIV
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Matthew 22:37-40 NIV
Do not forget to show hospitality [philoxenia] to strangers [xenos], for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:2 NIV
A church that looks like Jesus will love like Jesus loves.