I Will Love and Serve My Neighbor

I will love my neighbor by showing hospitality to strangers.

Definition - Hospitality is here meant as a personal expression of Christian love that welcomes strangers into the love, care and ministry of the church. It includes the idea of welcoming someone into your home, sharing of God’s provision, and sharing your life as well,

Hospitality to strangers includes other believers.

English Standard Version Chapter 1

Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, 6 who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God. 7[ For] they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. 8 [Therefore] we ought to support people like these, [that] we may be fellow workers for the truth.

9 I have written something to the church, [but] Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. 10 So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. [And not content with that], he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.

11 Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

Another example would believers who are newcomers to our church family - its hard to be new and find your place in a new community.

Reality includes both the natural and supernatural, physical and spiritual dimensions, we can show hospitality to demons through isolation, selfishness, sinful indulgences - when we operate from selfish pride, we do not entertain angels, but demons.