The Gospel is the source and blueprint for hospitality
Hospitality used to mean more than restaurants, event planning, or the hotel industry. It meant open doors, shared tables, and lives intertwined. Somewhere along the way—even in many churches—we drifted from that vision. We can sit beside the same people for years and still barely know them. Inviting someone into our home can now feel awkward, intrusive, or even risky. Texting replaced visiting. “Social” media replaced actual community. And what was once normal now feels radical.
But Scripture paints a very different picture, beginning with the Gospel invitation into the life of God Himself through His Son
From Abraham welcoming strangers, to Jesus constantly eating with sinners, to the coming marriage supper of the Lamb, the story of God is filled with hospitality. The Gospel itself is an invitation from God: strangers welcomed into His family through Christ. He did not remain distant from our brokenness—He opened His heart and brought us near.
That changes how we live.
Biblical hospitality is more than entertaining guests or hosting polished dinners. It is making room in our lives for people. It is truth wrapped in love, meals shared with purpose, and ordinary homes becoming places of ministry. Sometimes inconvenient? Yes. Sometimes messy? Absolutely. But also powerful, deeply needed, and profoundly Christlike.
This page is here to encourage a recovery of that kind of Gospel hospitality—through articles, videos, ideas, and practical encouragement. Because the world does not just need better arguments. It needs believers with open hearts, open hands, and open homes.
Good news dressed in good works!
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Nehemiah 3:28 – “Every one over against his house.” FB Meyer commentary
THIS is the way to deal with the evil of this world. We are all fonder of starting schemes, forming committees, and discussing methods of work, than in setting definitely to work for ourselves. There is a lack of definiteness, and we hardly know where to begin. But this verse suggests that every one should begin over against his own house. Try and make your own neighbourhood a little more like what God would have it. It may be that you have gone too far afield in search of work; you are applying to the Foreign Missionary Society, or are waiting for a sphere of service; yet, all the time, there is that wretched neighbourhood, like a piece of ruined wall before you. Arise and repair it!
Meshullam repaired over against his chamber (ver. 30). Perhaps he was not rich enough to have a whole house; he lived in a single room, but he discovered that there was a little bit of the wall just opposite his window, which would not be built unless he set to it. Is not that a hint for college students, and for those who live in flats, or industrial dwellings?
The best way is not immediately to begin giving tracts, good though that is in its place. Ask God to give you an opportunity of showing kindness to your neighbours, so that they get to understand and trust you; and wait upon God until the answer comes — until He shall show you what step He would have you take next. This is the foundation of your bit of wall. Then plod on step by step, tier by tier. God will show you how. You may be unpractised in wall-building; but He is the Architect and Builder, and you are but a bricklayer’s labourer at the best. Do as He tells you.
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Lev 19:33-34 “ ‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Titus 1:8 Rather, he (overseer) must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.
1 Tim 5:10 and she (widow) is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord’s people, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.
Luke 14:12-14 Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
“Practice hospitality!” – Romans 13:10
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