Nancy De Maswagmus says hospitality isn't primarily a question of real estate value.

Let me just say whether you live in a million dollar mansion or a cracker box,

your home is intended to be a place where people receive life and strength and help and peace and mercy.

It's a place God has given you, whatever place he given you, is a place that can be used to extend grace to others.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy Damas Walg the Ruth, author of Brokenness The Heart God Revives.

For April 23rd, 2024, I'm Dana Gresh. Nancy's continuing in our series on hospitality called Your Welcome Here.

It goes along with a new Bible study from Revive Our Hearts by that same title.

Here's Nancy.

It was interesting to me one day when I went to the internet to look up the subject of hospitality

to have I think hundreds of entries come up, but virtually all of them related to professional

hospitality, hotel industry, restaurant industry.

I was hard-pressed to find anything that related to the more personal dimension of hospitality.

We've been talking over the last couple of weeks about the Ministry of Christian Hospitality.

And isn't it interesting that in our culture, hospitality has been reduced to something that the professionals do. And yet I believe there's some aspect

of hospitality that is best shown in our homes and that in a world that is so fearful and

I have such broken relationships that we as believers in Christ can show a better

way, a way of love and really reaching out to and ministering to the hearts of people in very practical ways with the personal touch of Christian hospitality.

Now when we talk about hospitality, the culture that we live in that is so impersonal and so broken and

fragmented in its relationships is just one of many challenges that we face.

And as I've been thinking about my own life and exercising hospitality, I've tried to ask myself,

what are some of the obstacles? What are some of the challenges that we have to overcome

if we're going to demonstrate Christian hospitality. We know it's a

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