Didache Chapter 12: When Hospitality Needs Discernment

About this episode

This episode explores the balance between hospitality and discernment as outlined in Didache chapter 12.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we step into Didache chapter 12 and confront a tension most believers would rather avoid. Hospitality is not optional. It is commanded. But neither is discernment. And the line between generosity and enabling is thinner than most are willing to admit. The Didache lays it out without softening the edges. Receive those who come in the name of the Lord. Help them. Feed them. Care for them. But test them. Watch their patterns. Pay attention to their willingness t...

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Host: Logic of God

Topics covered

• hospitality
• discernment
• generosity
• faith
• Christian teachings

Keywords

• hospitality
• discernment
• Didache
• Christianity
• generosity
• faith

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Books & works: Didache

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