More Making Room: Recovering Hospitality

April 6, 2008 | Filed Under hospitality, missional |

making-room.jpgHospitality should be understood as a way of life rather than as a task or strategy. It is easy to slip into viewing hospitality as a strategy for reaching migrants and refugees, or for that matter, for reaching postmodern youth or homeless people. But such an approach misunderstands the basic orientation of hospitality. Hospitality is not a means to an end; it is a way of life infused by the gospel.

– Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by Christine D. Pohl

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  1. paul April 7, 2008 9:23 am

    I am glad that you are working with this book. The notion of hospitality as a way of life for Christians, as the way of life for Christ followers, is too much overlooked.

  2. Mark R April 20, 2008 10:21 pm

    I like the thoughts containned within this book, we in the West are pretty good at putting things in boxes, and we’ve got a box called hospitality, that we leave in the attic and check up on every now and then.