Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a

multi-generational team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms.

Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all things family.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Family team's podcast. I am here with a couple of friends

of mine, Phil Goodwin, from Athens, Georgia and Chris Sorillo from Eugene, Oregon. Thank you

guys for joining me today. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I'm excited. So we're dads who are all interested in this topic of hospitality.

And I wanted to kind of dive into this a little bit deeper and try to understand the implications of

really pursuing hospitality as fathers and his families and the impact that has on our building out of kingdom culture.

So I'm going to read a little essay I wrote just a very short article on,

on Abrahamic hospitality. And then I want to hear Phil and Chris's thoughts and just kind of

start a conversation around this. I think this is a very important topic. I think one of the

critical topics that I think is just very under discussed in the church.

So something I really would love to see us recover, but I think it starts with having a vision

for what this is all about. So this is Abrahamic hospitality becoming the master of the feast.

Western people don't know what to do when they become

wealthy. How are we to steward excess income? The current pattern is to find ways to build walls to

keep others out. More money leads to more isolation. As David Brooks once said, when Americans become

wealthy, they purchase loneliness.

Western Christians rarely serve as exceptions to this rule. However, they are more likely to give a higher percentage away than their secular counterparts.

But the real purpose of wealth is not to build higher walls, but longer tables.

A fatherhood goal for most men in history was to become the host or master not to build higher walls, but longer tables.

A fatherhood goal for most men in history was to become the host or master of many feasts.

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