“We must not miss this. The Bible directs followers of God to show warmth and kindness to the outsiders. Israel is to do this because they were strangers and because God cares for the outsider. In the New Testament, the church is to do this because the way we treat foreigners is the way we treat Jesus.” - P&D
Win Them with Dinner: Practicing Hospitality in Post-Christian Places
“Such are the times in which we live. And we are tempted to believe that these cultural circumstances make us strangers and exiles in a world that once embraced our values. But that’s not the whole story.” - Rosaria Butterfield
Also… Hospitality in the Bible: Following Jesus’s Hospitality of the Cross - Word by Word
What Kind of Church Hospitality Are People Looking For?
“I sensed, rather than saw, a person standing above me. I looked up into a frowning face….I finally whispered, ‘Is this your usual seat?’ The woman nodded, and I moved.” - Lifeway
6 Reasons for Pastors to Have at Least One Meal a Week with Someone—Either a Church Member or a Non-Believer
“Earley wrote the book after he had to make some difficult decisions to get his chaotic and too busy life in balance. From that experience, he adopted four daily habits and four weekly ones that have changed his life.” - Chuck Lawless
“The power of introverted hospitality in an extroverted world of church ministry.”
“Jesus had no home on earth to invite others into. When he sat with the woman at the well or crossed the sea to purge a single man of his demons, he wasn’t trying hard to attract crowds…. Sometimes, no one could find him… yet he embodied hospitality—which translates from the Greek to love of the stranger—in everything he did, to everyone he met.” - C.Today