Part 3: Successfully Homeless
We’re consistently sold the message that “the good life” comes when we embrace this world’s values. But as this summary statement shows, the truly good life is never feeling quite at home in this world. We have a better country coming, and the more we long for it, the better we will live.
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
When our bond with God was severed by our sin, He didn’t give up on us. He made a second Eden, a place for us to meet with Him and be redeemed. That place was the Temple, and the events that happened there teach us about a God who is mighty to save, the cost of our sin, and His plans for us.
