For hospitality, the roots reach back to the raw material of an ancient nomadic custom according to which one honors and welcomes the stranger. Hospitality is storied in Genesis 18, for example, when Abraham and Sarah show gracious receptiveness to three strangers at an oasis among the terebinths of Mamre. And in commentary perhaps upon our earlier remark that affluence is hard on hospitality in our experience we read in vv. And then it provides a direction for the future, options for alternatives. It really is an issue of one's angle of vision and of one's life-style, one's posture on matters that count.
Relevance is quickly pre-judged.
We need a lifestyle change, an ear-style change indeed. It provides a reason for hope. This is a big mistake. Bridges like this enable people to get to the table where the bread and butter and the eskimo pie ice cream bars await them. This embraces all the needy into the arms of inheritance where belonging is a declaration of the good news of grace.