New Testament hospitality : partnership with strangers as promise and mission
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 158 pages ; 22 cm.
9780800615437, 0800615433
12773694
1. Hospitality, strangers, and the love of God
Enter the stranger
Hospitality and partnership
Some notes on method
2. Sharing the feat of the kingdom (Jesus)
Hospitality in first-century Judaism
THe excesses of Jesus
God's abundance for renewed community
The supper for hosts to be
The feat of the kingdom coming
3. Welcoming one another to new humanity (Paul)
The gospel at table
Coming home to new humanity
House church hospitality
The supper of discernment
Three partnerships in the gospel
4. Guests and hosts, together in mission (Luke)
Luke's focus on hospitality
To honor the wandering prophets
To encourage the resident prophets
Toward a cooperative house church mission
mission as spiritual-material welcoming
The supper of joyful repentance
Conclusions
5. Frontiers of hospitality
Partnerships with strangers today
The economics of the Spirit
Discerning the frontiers
The abiding mystery of God's welcome