John 21:12–14
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Men and women are alienated, first from God, and consequently from one another. We have manufactured a society of atomized individuals, connected by nothing more substantial than Wi-Fi signals and shared consumer preferences. We bowl alone, we eat alone, we live alone. The result is a gnawing loneliness, a quiet desperation that all the noise of our digital age cannot drown out. The modern world tells you that you are the captain of your own soul, the master of your own fate, but it leaves you adrift on a vast and meaningless sea, with no port to call home. Into this cold, impersonal world, the Christian faith speaks a radical word: hospitality. Not the cheap, sentimental hospitality of a greeting card, but the robust, substantive, Christ-centered hospitality that is woven into the fabric of reality. The central act of our faith is a meal.