Sunday school teachers, Bible study leaders, and other persons interested in careful Bible study will find the explanatory essays for each section of Scripture helpful. Two focused articles at the end of each chapter, The Text in biblical Context and The Text in the Life of the Church , are unique features of the series. Especially in the latter, believers church perspectives come through clearly. The series is based on the conviction that God still speaks to all who will listen, and that the Holy Spirit makes the Word a living and authoritative guide for all who want to know and do God's will. 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.