Nancy DeMas-Wagamuth encourages us to practice what we preach when it comes to how we treat others.

It's not enough to just say that we love each other.

We have to show that we love each other in one of the most practical ways that we can show that we love each other is by opening our homes.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy Damas Welkamuth, co-author of True Woman 201.

For April 10, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. All this month of Revive Our Hearts were focusing on the biblical concept of hospitality, showing love to strangers.

Nancy Damas, Walgemuth, has been helping us get down to the heart level to show us that

gospel-centered hospitality goes way beyond.

Did I vacuum before the dinner guest showed up?

Here's Nancy.

To be a Christian is not just

to have our own personal relationship with God.

To be a Christian is to be a part of a family.

It's to be a child of God and it's to be in relationship with other children of God.

You see, as Christians, we share, you and I share, the life of Jesus Christ by spiritual birth.

It's a bloodline that we have through Jesus Christ and that's why the scripture says that we are brothers and sisters in Christ

For the New Testament believers that was a powerful concept that they had come out of all kinds of backgrounds slaves free Jews

Gentiles men women but they had come to be related to each other brothers and sisters in the family of God.

And so for those first Christians who were living in a pagan hostile world that rejected Christ,

this family was very important to them. Those first Christians

were a closely knit group of brothers and sisters. They stuck together. They had to.

Their survival depended upon it. So as you read through

the New Testament, you read about these family relationships. They would greet

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