Stress Test Devotional April 27
April 27, 2024
LUKE 14:12-13 | 12 He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.
The hospitality practices we’ve examined this week take us far beyond the bands of typical entertaining. Commonly, hospitality is reciprocal. Invitations from me lead to invitations to me. But Jesus teaches that the greatest forms of hospitality are where there is no expectation of a return. He connects hospitality to pure generosity. This removes self-interest and competitive hosting from the equation. Guests are never means to our ends.
Is your entertaining focused on return and reciprocity or generosity?
