Hospitality comes from the Greek word: fē-lo-kse-nē’-ä (philoxenia). Which means love of strangers. We don’t think of hospitality too often in our culture, at least not within the context of ancient Biblical hospitality. Yet, it is an important concept throughout the Old and New Testaments.

As far back as you look in the history of God’s people, one of the God-appointed duties of the righteous was hospitality—or the willingness to welcome people into your home and into your life, who don’t ordinarily belong there.