What is biblical hospitality?
Scripture commands Christians to be given to hospitality. In the original Greek, the word given could best be translated as to pursue or chase after. Biblical hospitality is literally caring for the whole person in such a way that will give glory to God. As each person is a unique and special image-bearer of God, each needs care and encouragement in a special way. In the early Church, the full breath of hospitality was shown to all -- the stranger as well as to those of the body of faith. At some point in history, the Church lost its connection with the command to pursue hospitality. Today we have hotels and hospitals which have relieved us of the reality of bearing the burdens of others. Even churches today seem to equate hospitality with providing coffee and doughnuts on Sunday mornings. It is time for the Body of Christ to reclaim its heritage of being given to hospitality and demonstrate God's grace to others as He showed such grace to us in Christ.
Who will be there to love them from the heart?
At Missionary Care Ministry, we are actively engaged in the practice of biblical hospitality. We seek to care for the whole person, providing for their unique needs. Ministry families come to us from serving in all areas of the world, some needing quiet and rest, some needing healing from wounds of conflict and persecution, others simply needing to be heard, understood and supported in their time of trials. Whatever the needs, we seek to be instruments of refreshment and restoration for those proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ before a watching world.
