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Open the door to receive a stranger

23-07-2022

Opinion

Gertrude de Wildt-Brouwer, RD

Open the door to receive a stranger

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An open house and an open heart. Some space on the couch, an extra chair at the table or a bed for unexpected visitors. A hospitable Christian unites himself to the tradition of the believers from the Bible book of Acts, who brake the bread in each other's houses "with gladness and simplicity of heart."

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