Sunday School

"He has fire in His eyes and a sword in His hand

In the introduction to The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis wrote: "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to not believe in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. Nowhere is this more evident than in our consideration of the Antichrist."

It is my observation that hospitality to sinners is a virtue seldom practiced by contemporary Christians probably because, unlike Jesus who embarrassed the Pharisees because he "ate with publicans and sinners" (Matt. 9:11), we seldom do things like that. What a difference it might make if we did open our hearts and our doors to those we call "sinners." The discovery of a life of Christian hospitality will inevitably lead us out of our comfort zones.

How often the New Testament reminds us that poor people were very important to Jesus. He showed great hospitality to the very people with whom we seldom rub shoulders in life and who are seldom the object of our evangelistic outreach.