Storytellers: Week 4
Our Storytellers series features several exciting guest teachers focusing on stories, practices, and testimonies of Biblical hospitality. This week we hear from Rev. Tracey Bianchi of Christ Church in Oak Brook, Illinois—Pete’s old “stomping ground”!
Read Exodus 1:8 — Exodus 2:10.
In these short passages, we see biblical hospitality enacted courageously as women from very different backgrounds risk everything to follow God in the midst of a culture of fear and scarcity.
Focus on Exodus 1:15-21 for the next two questions.
1. What did you know about the two Hebrew midwives from this story prior to hearing Sunday’s sermon or engaging in this study?
2. How does the enormous impact that two “minor” characters from the Bible have on the entire trajectory of the Hebrew story reflect what, and who, God values? What does this show about God’s character?
Focus on Exodus 1:22 — 2:10 for the next three questions.
3. Have you ever considered the risk Pharaoh’s daughter takes on in Exodus 2:5-10, openly defying her powerful father and raising a Hebrew boy has her own?
4. What does the compassion and courage shown by this powerful Egyptian woman teach us about those we may discount, or assume the worst about? What does it show about who God is able to use for His glory?
5. Discuss the courage, intelligence of Moses’ sister Miriam and the sacrifice his mother makes in order to save Moses, and as a result years later, the Hebrew people.
6. Finally, talk about the ways may God be calling you to be courageous in the way you offer hospitality. Where, when, and to whom can you offer a courageous act of hospitality?
