![]() ![]() I think about this every Lord’s Day morning as I’m preparing food for two meals: one weekly fellowship meal at church and one meal at home with neighbors and friends and folks from church. Have you ever thought that you, your house, and your time are not your own but rather God’s ordained way of escape for someone? ![]() It also speaks to the lived tension of applying faith to our trials and then waiting for that way of escape to present itself. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” This passage speaks to the intensity, the loneliness, and the danger of temptation. Radically ordinary hospitality begins when we remember that God uses us as living epistles-and that the openness or inaccessibility of our homes and hearts stands between life and death, victory and defeat, and grace or shame for most people.Ĭonsider with me the tension of 1 Corinthians 10:13: “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. ![]()
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