Jase Robertson

But a lot of times it was just us.

getting into it ourselves.

There was hospitality.

There was food.

There was worship and singing.

There was work.

There was work.

There was praying.

Sometimes we would even, as part of those processes of discipleship, we'd go out and package a bunch of duck calls up for a big sale we had coming up.

And we worked.

We did that together.

People just contributed their time to help our little business.

So you're right.

And it's interesting because Chase has already given you the little look ahead to 2nd and 3rd John.

But hospitality was so prevalent in the first century church that then John has to give a warning to this house church because they would take these folks in that were traveling through.

But what was happening was now we're having these false teachers begin showing up.

at these house churches and other places.

So they had to start giving you a little insight as to who to look for because some of these people, and they even came up with the rules on how long to keep them because they were like, if they want to stay too long or they start asking for money, not a good sign.

And he doesn't deal with it specifically in the text.

No, it's actually just a circle that's a little tighter with the same message.