{"id":5134,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/making-friends-out-of-strangers\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:14","slug":"making-friends-out-of-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/making-friends-out-of-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Friends Out of Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You and I tend to offer hospitality to only a limited number of people &#8212; persons whom we already know, mostly relatives and a few close friends.  But, in Abraham\u2019s time, hospitality was extended to whomever needed it &#8212; strangers and acquaintances alike.  In fact, in its original form, \u201chospitality\u201d combines two separate words &#8212; one meaning friend and the other meaning stranger.  So, from the beginning of its usage, hospitality has carried with it the idea of making friends out of strangers.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>James W. Cox, The Minister\u2019s Manual, Harper, 1994, 109; contributed by Paul Fritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You and I tend to offer hospitality to only a limited number of people &#8212; persons whom we already know, mostly relatives and a few close friends. But, in Abraham\u2019s time, hospitality was extended to whomever needed it &#8212; strangers and acquaintances alike. In fact, in its original form, \u201chospitality\u201d combines two separate words &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3792,2509,2491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}