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Not sure where the best forum is for this discussion, but I'll try here.
I was reading this article: https://www.missioalliance.org/confessions-female-preacher/ and this quote stood out to me:
“Although we often think of hospitality as a tame and pleasant practice, Christian hospitality has always had a subversive countercultural dimension. ‘Hospitality is resistance.’ Especially when the larger society disregards or dishonours certain persons, small acts of respect and welcome are potent far beyond themselves. They point to a different system of values and an alternate model of relationships”
Hospitality is resistance; that really is so true. Resistance to a world of sin, of a thousand death-dealing realities, to so much human disfigurement.
And yet I don't know that our churches talk about hospitality enough; value hospitality enough.
What do you think?
I was reading this article: https://www.missioalliance.org/confessions-female-preacher/ and this quote stood out to me:
“Although we often think of hospitality as a tame and pleasant practice, Christian hospitality has always had a subversive countercultural dimension. ‘Hospitality is resistance.’ Especially when the larger society disregards or dishonours certain persons, small acts of respect and welcome are potent far beyond themselves. They point to a different system of values and an alternate model of relationships”
Hospitality is resistance; that really is so true. Resistance to a world of sin, of a thousand death-dealing realities, to so much human disfigurement.
And yet I don't know that our churches talk about hospitality enough; value hospitality enough.
What do you think?