As I continue to work on details for the trips ahead, I am constantly amazed at the wonderful attitude of hospitality I keep encountering, Yesterday, for example, I heard from a member of a Local Ministry Team in Hereford who invited me to stay with him and his wife in their home for two nights. As I checked the schedule I realized that I had not booked a room as I had planned for the previous night, and I shared that in my email. I got word back that he was checking to make arrangements for me in the town where I would be that day on my behalf.
I really appreciate this sense of genuine hospitality, and it makes me aware of one of the invisible but extremely significant characteristics of shared ministry. Share Ministry is possible when there is a genuine sense of hospitality that welcomes others to share in a common life and ministry. Without that attitude of hospitality, it seems that it would be impossible for ministry to be shared among people.
I have experienced this attitude already in the numerous contacts with others in every place where I will be visiting. It is truly a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
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