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Although hospitality was central to Christian identity and practice in earlier centuries, our generation knows little about its life-giving character. Making Room revisits the Christian foundations of welcoming strangers and explores the necessity, difficulty, and blessing of hospitality today. Combining rich biblical and historical research with extensive exposure to contemporary Christian...

for transformed loyalties and relationships, and a distinctive life-style for citizens of heaven who were simultaneously residents on earth. For the early church, then, hospitality both participated in and anticipated God’s hospitality.33 Christians offered hospitality in grateful response to God’s generosity and as an expression of welcome to Christ “who for your sake was a stranger.”34 For them, hospitality was connected to the promises of God and to the presence of Christ. It condensed attention
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