The Gospel of Hospitality

Described as a pillar of commitment in relationships between hosts and guests hospitality plays the major role in making Scriptures speak to life situations. The biblical recounts about these people, like Abraham, Lot, Ruth, David, and many others; their expressions of how hospitality is understood, in the ancient Near East cultures and traditions; dubbed as a sacred obligation that strangers be treated well and recognized as one of our own. When the Israelites were freed from oppression, God walked with them along the wilderness; they might have complained so much but God listened to them with the heart of compassion. Those prophets and other biblical characters, their sense of otherness makes a big explanation; that part of being human there’s a connection between what is needed and God’s call to everyone. Well, Christ teaches during meal fellowships inclusion of those who don’t flow in the mainstream; these are the poor, oppressed, defenseless, and many others; that they become the guests in his eternal kingdom. It’s a great deal of openness to welcome those immigrants in this country of opportunity; in spite of growing difficulties in many spheres America remains a magnet to all cultures around the globe. While strangers these days become like a threat, even a continuing question that knows no answer here in this world we still find how hospitable the American people in years of that long history of immigration.