This book is about a journey into hospitality. Like the stranger who comes to your door, some of these ideas will be new and different. Some of them will seem scary at first, maybe even hostile. Let them come in and sit awhile, as your guests. Hospitality is often seen as a bland practice of politeness or an invitation to be harmed by a stranger.
Biblical hospitality is different.
God's call to love the stranger is neither boring nor dangerous. Instead, it is an invitation to experience God in a new way. Not in a way that depletes our energy, but always in a way where two become three, as God joins us at the table. People usually don't expect surprises. Yet biblical hospitality, the call to love the stranger, guarantees that a surprise is just around the corner.