Living in community with each other is vital. I’ve talked about this before. But,if all it ever becomes is a inwardly focussed Moose Lodge meeting then we’ve missed half the point. Yes, community is where we digest Truth and mature to be more like Christ. But Jesus spent a lot of time with sinners. An awful lot of time. So much so, that he made everyone around Him uncomfortable.
In scripture we see both the idea of fellowship (Gk. koinonia) and hospitality (Gk. philoxenia). Hospitality is more than being in relationship with other Christians. Being open, vulnerable, relational. Hospitality is fellowship extended to strangers. Hospitality should be a natural outgrowth of fellowship. You simply allow your Christ-centered community to extend beyond the church walls and encompass your neighborhoods, workplaces, and daily encounters with the lost world in which we live.

Have you ever watched or heard something that you thought was good at first, but just didn’t sit right for some reason? During my 


