This Sunday we will be looking at the scriptural theme of hospitality. Interestingly, both the Old and New Testaments list hospitality as a spiritual imperative. But in our culture today, hospitality is not a spiritual imperative, but a social activity. We give hospitality when we grill out or take a pie to a new neighbor. One theologian has suggested that Christian hospitality is a discipline of welcoming the stranger at all times - to welcome the person who is homeless, or the person grieving. Hospitality forces the giver to create space for another. And, as the scripture says, when we welcome the stranger, we welcome God. What do you think? Is Christian hospitality different from, say, hotel hospitality? How? Why?
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Rebecca Mcfee
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