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Everyday Saints Devotional 21

by David Joynt on January 22, 2022


ROMANS 12 :13 | 13 Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.

2 THESSALONIANS 3:8 | 8 and we did not eat anyone's bread without paying for it; but with toil and labor we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you.

Paul’s encouragement of hospitality to friends also includes strangers, as we learn from this verse. But he was careful not to abuse the hospitality practices which he encouraged. Always
grateful for support, and recognizing the sacredness of honoring guests, he did not see hospitality practices as unlimited gift cards. He worked to support himself rather than accept completed
dependence on others. Sponging, or exploiting other’s generosity, was ruled out.

Has anyone exhausted your hospitality?

 

Tags: hospitality, exhausted

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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