Get in here! We've been waiting for you!

Okay, I admit that last week’s post was a bit more academic/historic than usual.  But the ambiguity or queerness of that text isn't apparent until you do some of that research.  And seeking out those meanings and putting in that work  is what part of what makes it so radically hospitable.  It’s the difference between welcoming someone when they walk into the church versus running out to greet them, shouting, “get in here, we've been waiting for you!”  So now it is your turn to do some to this work.  I leave you with a handful of passages that may be quite familiar to you.  But I invite you to read them through a lens of radical hospitality towards our LGBTQ brothers and sisters, and let me know what you find…

Psalm 139
O Lord, you have searched me and known me.  You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.  You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with  all my ways.

Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without even knowing.

Galatians 3:28
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Jesus Christ.

John 20:2
So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “they have taken my lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”

Titus 3: 4-7

But when the goodness and loving-kindness of God our Saviour appeared, he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.