The following differentiation between \u201chospitality\u201d and \u201centertaining\u201d was made by Karen Mains in Open Heart, Open Home<\/i> (Elgin, Ill.: Cook, 1976):<\/p>\n
Entertaining says, \u201cI want to impress you with my home, my clever decorating, my cooking.\u201d Hospitality, seeking to minister, says, \u201cThis home is a gift from my Master. I use it as He desires.\u201d Hospitality aims to serve.<\/p>\n
Entertaining puts things before people. \u201cAs soon as I get the house finished, the living room decorated, my housecleaning done\u2014then I will start inviting people. Hospitality puts people first. \u201cNo furniture\u2014we\u2019ll eat on the floor!\u201d \u201cThe decorating may never get done\u2014you come anyway.\u201d \u201cThe house is a mess\u2014but you are friends\u2014come home with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Entertaining subtly declares, \u201cThis home is mine, an expression of my personality. Look, please, and admire.\u201d Hospitality whispers, \u201cWhat is mine is yours.\u201d685<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The following differentiation between \u201chospitality\u201d and \u201centertaining\u201d was made by Karen Mains in Open Heart, Open Home (Elgin, Ill.: Cook, 1976): Entertaining says, \u201cI want to impress you with my home, my clever decorating, my cooking.\u201d Hospitality, seeking to minister, says, \u201cThis home is a gift from my Master. I use it as He desires.\u201d … Continue reading “HOSPITALITY AND ENTERTAINING”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}