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In Luke chapter 10, verses 5-9, Jesus teaches the disciples how to find the other hospitable:<\/p>\n
5 <\/sup>\u201cWhen you enter a house, first say, \u2018Peace to this house.\u2019 6 <\/sup>If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. 7 <\/sup>Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.”<\/em><\/p>\n 8 <\/sup>\u201cWhen you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you. 9 <\/sup>Heal the sick who are there and tell them, \u2018The kingdom of God has come near to you.\u2019”<\/em><\/p>\n My time in Brazil taught me to do this very thing. This short term mission trip was not about saving or fixing the other; it was about building relationships, so we could learn from one another.<\/p>\n The purpose of our trip was to learn about church planting outside of a Western These three themes boiled up in every church plant. My hope is to reflect on the three <\/p>\n Written by: Brendan Ashley, current MDiv student at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Luke chapter 10, verses 5-9, Jesus teaches the disciples how to find the other hospitable: 5 \u201cWhen you enter a house, first say, \u2018Peace to this house.\u2019 6 If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. 7 Stay there, eating and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,27,31,33,34,36,39],"series":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-work","tag-call-to-ministry","tag-mission-reflections","tag-seminary-community","tag-seminary-experiences","tag-social-justice","tag-spiritual-journeys","tag-volunteering"],"yoast_head":"\r\n
\ncontext. In the span of ten days, I learned many things, but three themes struck
\nme in particular: pray, bring good news, and build relationships<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\nthemes I learned from my brothers and sisters, in order to engage with the community God is sending me to.<\/p>\n