Turns out God knows what He's talking about and He calls His people, Old Testament and New Testament to be hospitable.

That part of a life well lived and part of being His people is where you love the stranger, love the alien, be hospitable.

The New Testament where the Greek word for show hospitality is phylozenia, which means love of the stranger.

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So over the years, we've probably had quite a few people live with us in and out. How's that been for you?

You had to bring that up. You're laughing because tell the listener why you're laughing. Go ahead. I'll just let you stress this.

I wanted you to express it.

Well, it was always a wonderful thing to invite somebody. They usually lived in our basement that we finished and had their own living space.

But after a period of time, I got a little frustrated. Let's just say that. Why is that?

It cramped my life.

I remember going. You think it's so funny, don't you?

No, I felt bad for you because what would happen generally speaking, sometimes we had young women, young men that kind of needed a place for a time to be.

And what would happen is I'd find you up in the bedroom hiding.

And you were also jealous because you said, man, I come home and I want to talk to you and you're sitting there.

I lost my wife. That's what it felt like.

She was so concerned about the person living with us feeling welcome and loved.

She didn't care about me anymore.

That was on me. Like I did not do a great job of like I would put all my attention on them and you did feel kind of lost.

Yeah, and it's a bad way to introduce the topic that, you know, we're going to encourage listeners to do.

But we've got Don Evers back with us. Don, you're a pastor, you're a dad, you've written this book on research and we're going to get into what we're talking about right now about.

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