1. 1 Timothy 3:2 (ESV)
  2. Application

Hospitality requirement for offices

1 Timothy 3:2 (ESV)

2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

There is another Scripture that we can look at in 1 Timothy 3:1–16. 1 Timothy 3:1–16 lists hospitality among the requirements for those that serve as elders in the church. 1 Timothy 3:2: Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable… So it is something that is connected to those that desire to serve as elders in the church. But we see also that in 1 Timothy 3:8 Paul says, Deacons likewise must be dignified… He connects what the deacons do to what the elders do. He says, Elders do these things; deacons likewise. Hospitality is part of the work of the offices of the church.1

Nathan Eshelman