Hospitality on the Go!

We are doing a new Bible Study on Wednesday nights about Biblical hospitality.  It is so good!!  Often we confuse entertaining with being hospitable.  We worry and fret over having people over.  we clean our homes top to bottom.  we prepare big meals.  We dress up.  We do it all!  But that is so not how god intended.  Now, there is nothing wrong with entertaining people in our homes or taking people out for dinner and the like.  But being a hospitable believer is way different.  It is an act of worship.  It is a time of praying and sharing and listening.  Even if it is over Lance crackers and a Coke at the ballfield.  It is allowing people in our lives - mess and all - to truly fellowship.  It is stopping for 5 minutes to ask a few questions about someone.  It is starting a new relationship with our neighbors....our literal next door neighbor!  It is being the hands and feet of Jesus.  It is putting Galatians 6:2 into action..."Carry one another's burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ."  This is not an easy task.  But god never promised an easy walk with Him.  Ministry is hard.  It is time consuming.  But it is so worth it.  So I encourage you to take up hospitality and take it with you wherever you go!