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Most people don’t regret what they believed, they regret how they lived.the gap isn’t between what we know and what is true… The gap is between what we know and how we live.Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”God never called his people to live next to people… or sit next to people in a church service… but he did call us to share our lives with them. Hospitality 1 Peter 4:7-11Peter describes hospitality as costly! It requires forgiveness and easy to grumble about. Hospitality exposes your gaps… your gaps of knowledge, compassion, the things that make you angry, forgiveness, and wisdom! Then we get to invite Jesus to fill our inadequacies. So instead of just being neighborly, what if we ate with our neighbors? What if we were hospitable?There is no Biblical evidence for outsourcing evangelism… even if it is to the leaders of your church.If this is who God is forming us to be… then something has to change.But what if… the very thing we’ve been avoiding… is actually the thing God wants to use to grow our faith and reach the people around us?So the question isn’t: “Should I be a better neighbor?”The question is: Am I willing to open my life to my neighbor?
By Nate Porter5
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Most people don’t regret what they believed, they regret how they lived.the gap isn’t between what we know and what is true… The gap is between what we know and how we live.Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”God never called his people to live next to people… or sit next to people in a church service… but he did call us to share our lives with them. Hospitality 1 Peter 4:7-11Peter describes hospitality as costly! It requires forgiveness and easy to grumble about. Hospitality exposes your gaps… your gaps of knowledge, compassion, the things that make you angry, forgiveness, and wisdom! Then we get to invite Jesus to fill our inadequacies. So instead of just being neighborly, what if we ate with our neighbors? What if we were hospitable?There is no Biblical evidence for outsourcing evangelism… even if it is to the leaders of your church.If this is who God is forming us to be… then something has to change.But what if… the very thing we’ve been avoiding… is actually the thing God wants to use to grow our faith and reach the people around us?So the question isn’t: “Should I be a better neighbor?”The question is: Am I willing to open my life to my neighbor?