The February issue has an article on prayer and Doug Young offers a great review of the book, Practicing Hospitality. Here is his introduction. This is a good word for the church today.
Hospitality has always been of great importance to the church. But after reading Practicing Hospitality: The Joy of Serving Others by Pat Ennis and Lisa Tatlock, I’m convinced that most of us do not have a clear biblical understanding of hospitality. The problem is that most Christians have not understood the central role of hospitality for ministry, for outreach, and for gospel witness in our communities. We often offer up excuses or by default let the months slip away without opening our homes to fellow believers, the lost, those in ministry, neighbors, international students, widows, the grieving, or singles. At the heart of our neglect is thoughtlessness and lack of conviction that our homes are central to gospel ministry.
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