13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
I would argue that hospitality is something that is even more essential in today’s cultural climate, because society is dominated by relationships that are more social-media driven than interpersonally driven today. We live in a time when genuine face-to-face relationship has suffered, because there is this idea of relationship that is via social media or internet friends or these sorts of things. So there is a false sense of community that is developed as people live through smartphones and through the Internet and through gaming and other screen media as opposed to face-to-face relationship. So our culture is shifting. And I would say because of that shift in our culture our need for hospitality increases, and the effects that hospitality has in the life of the church increases as well. Much of our life is directed through the cellular device in our pocket – that includes entertainment and business and social activities – and all of these things are able to be directed and brought into our idea of reality. And because of this and other factors, hospitality has suffered in the church. In this generation, hospitality continues to be one thing that suffers.1
Nathan Eshelman
9 Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.