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.
The Sermon on the Mount is often acclaimed (even by non-Christians) as the greatest moral teaching ever presented. It dares us to dream of the world-changing things that could happen if we began to walk like Him.
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.
