Embracing Otherness: Christian Practice of Hospitality
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Christian practices are the activities that have been cooperatively performed over time addressing the fundamental needs of human existence, aiming to grow into a deeper knowledge of God, respond to God's active presence, and participate in God's continuous creation of the world. Hospitality is one of Christian essential practices deeply embedded in teachings of Christian tradition. Recently, ethical awakening of hospitality has arisen more and more, as the hatred tendency toward the different race or the refugee aggravates across the globe. Christian hospitality indicates a true willingness to accept others warmly without condition. Hospitality is not accidental but core to Christian belief and life. Christian doctrine confirms the very truth of God's hospitality with which S/He has embraced whole humanity and has offered the way of redemption. In this study, we will look into Christian practice of hospitality by reviewing the narratives of the Scriptures and then attempt to illuminate distinctiveness of Christian hospitality. When we are reminded of the term, "hospitality to needy stranger," it is easy for us to superficially misconstrue it as something "hierarchical" and "one directional flow" of power. However, Christian hospitality has nothing to do with "the powerful," "the dominant," or "the superior." Jesus, the best example of great hospitality and most wonderful host to the outcast, never is at the center or in power in society. Rather, Jesus identifies himself with the stranger, the marginalized, and the outcast. The core of Christian hospitality is in mutuality. The marginal Messiah welcomed other marginal people. Jesus invited others, cared for others, and offered generosity to others, while he sat at other people's tables as a guest and a recipient. In addition, genuine Christian hospitality means accepting others warmly and freely as strangers without coercion to change one’s difference and strangeness. One step further, Christian hospitality indicates not merely a one-time event but spiritual attitude to accept Others as the image of God in any circumstances. By practicing hospitality, Christian community promotes a resocialization process to restore the self-esteem of the marginalized. We also expect people who has experienced restoration of their self-esteem, in turn, can empower and inspire the others toward spiritual revival and redemption. Christian community can participate in God's work of redemption and restoration by practicing and extending God's hospitality in the world.
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Christian practices are the activities that have been cooperatively performed over time addressing the fundamental needs of human existence, aiming to grow into a deeper knowledge of God, respond to God's active presence, and participate in God's continuous creation of the world. Hospitality is one of Christian essential practices deeply embedded in teachings of Christian tradition. Recently, ethical awakening of hospitality has arisen more and more, as the hatred tendency toward the different race or the refugee aggravates across the globe. Christian hospitality indicates a true willingness to accept others warmly without condition. Hospitality is not accidental but core to Christian belief and life. Christian doctrine confirms the very truth of God's hospitality with which S/He has embraced whole humanity and has offered the way of redemption. In this study, we will look into Christian practice of hospitality by reviewing the narratives of the Scriptures and then attempt to illuminate distinctiveness of Christian hospitality. When we are reminded of the term, "hospitality to needy stranger," it is easy for us to superficially misconstrue it as something "hierarchical" and "one directional flow" of power. However, Christian hospitality has nothing to do with "the powerful," "the dominant," or "the superior." Jesus, the best example of great hospitality and most wonderful host to the outcast, never is at the center or in power in society. Rather, Jesus identifies himself with the stranger, the marginalized, and the outcast. The core of Christian hospitality is in mutuality. The marginal Messiah welcomed other marginal people. Jesus invited others, cared for others, and offered generosity to others, while he sat at other people's tables as a guest and a recipient. In addition, genuine Christian hospitality means accepting others warmly and freely as strangers without coercion to change one’s difference and strangeness. One step further, Christian hospitality indicates not merely a one-time event but spiritual attitude to accept Others as the image of God in any circumstances. By practicing hospitality, Christian community promotes a resocialization process to restore the self-esteem of the marginalized. We also expect people who has experienced restoration of their self-esteem, in turn, can empower and inspire the others toward spiritual revival and redemption. Christian community can participate in God's work of redemption and restoration by practicing and extending God's hospitality in the world.
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