Biblical Hospitality and Orphan Care

Dan Cruver:

My friend Johnston Moore, Content Manager at Hope for Orphans, co-authored an excellent article that considers the relationship between the biblical practice of hospitality and the Christian’s responsibility to care for orphans. He writes:

Biblical hospitality is a notion that was crucial to the growth and witness of the early church, but has been largely lost in today’s world when the concept of hospitality is reduced to Martha Stewart-style dinner parties thrown for those who will make us feel better about ourselves through association.

We know that we are to care for widows, orphans, and strangers—we’ve heard it before, maybe hundreds, even thousands of times. The early church didn’t just hear it, though. They lived it…and as a result, they impacted the world around them in incredible ways for the sake of the Gospel. In fact, the early church was known for taking in and sharing what little they had with those who had no one, and nothing, to call their own.

Read the entire article.

Ultimately, what motives us to practice this kind of hospitality? When we had no one and nothing, God brought us in to his household. Nothing motivates the practice of hospitality like the gospel.