{"id":6700,"date":"2020-03-26T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/?p=6700"},"modified":"2020-03-26T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:44:05","slug":"practice-hospitality-especially-during-covid-19-by-rosaria-butterfield-march-24-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/?p=6700","title":{"rendered":"Practice Hospitality, Especially during COVID-19 by: Rosaria Butterfield \/ March 24, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/practice-hospitality-especially-during-covid-19\/?utm_source=Crossway+Marketing&amp;utm_campaign=3f89a70b8f-20200324+-+General+-+Hospitality+COVID-19&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_0275bcaa4b-3f89a70b8f-287419773\">Link to full article here &#8230; Practice Hospitality, Especially during COVID-19<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EXCERPT &#8230; <br>2. Practicing the Christian ethic of hospitality under COVID-19  demonstrates our fear of God, not of men (and the virus they may carry).  We are to live <em>coram  Deo<\/em>\u2014before the face of God.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practicing hospitality when we could be killed by (or kill) a person \nstanding a few feet away boggles the mind and wearies the soul. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esv.org\/Psalm%20150%3A6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Psalm 150:6<\/a>\n declares, \u201cLet everything that has breath praise the Lord!\u201d But we live\n in a world where the very act of breathing is dangerous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christians must look to God\u2014and his glory\u2014more than we look to the physical danger around us. As John Calvin writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>God expects a very different kind of practical wisdom from us \n[Christians], namely that we should meditate on his judgments in a time \nof adversity and on his goodness in delivering us from danger. For \nsurely it is not by mere chance that a person falls into the hands of \nenemies or robbers; neither is it by chance that a person is rescued \nfrom them. But what we must constantly keep in mind is that all \nafflictions are God\u2019s rod, and therefore there is no remedy for them \nother than God\u2019s grace.<sup>1<\/sup> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Precautions, medical interventions, and vaccines have value, but our \nultimate hope is not in any of them. God is sovereign over every breath \nwe take, even the breath of someone who carries disease and enters our \nsix-foot bubble. If \u201call afflictions are God\u2019s rod,\u201d our task is to fear\n God more than man and the virus he may carry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to full article here &#8230; Practice Hospitality, Especially during COVID-19 EXCERPT &#8230; 2. Practicing the Christian ethic of hospitality under COVID-19 demonstrates our fear of God, not of men (and the virus they may carry). We are to live coram Deo\u2014before the face of God. 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