The document discusses the importance of empathy and how it relates to the church body and hospitality. It states that all parts of the church body are necessary, though some may think some parts are less valuable. However, those parts thought to be less valuable are actually invaluable. It then discusses empathy as standing in someone else's shoes, feeling what they feel, and seeing from their perspective. Empathy is difficult to automate but makes the world a better place. It concludes that transformation begins with empathic hospitality.

1. The Church is the Body of Christ, made
up of many very different parts.

2. Each part is 100% necessary, but some
parts think they’re worth more than others.

3. The parts that some think are less valuable
are actually invaluable to the Body.

4. HOPE HUMILITY HOSPITALITY
Empathic

5. empathy
Identification with and sharing another
person’s feelings, experiences and emotions.

6. To the one who is hurting, EMPATHY
feels much better than SYMPATHY.

7. Empathy is about standing
in someone else's shoes,
feeling with his or her heart,
seeing with his or her eyes.
Not only is empathy hard to
outsource and automate,
but it makes the world a
better place.
—Daniel H. Pink

8. Empathy is the most
mysterious transaction that
the human soul can have, and
it's accessible to all of us, but
we have to give ourselves the
opportunity to identify, to
plunge ourselves in a story
where we see the world from
the bottom up or through
another's eyes or heart.
—Sue Monk Kidd

9. isolated | alone | different | avoided
Our transformation begins
with Empathic Hospitality