This week’s
Bible reading from Matthew 10:40-42, just two verses long, includes one word
written six times.
Welcome.
I think the
repetition says, “Pay attention to this.”
The reading
comes at the end of how to treat missionaries and prophets when they visit and
preach. I think the long instructions
about visiting preachers has to do with the poor treatment many had received in
the past. I also think that the overabundance of the word “welcome” expresses the message beyond how folks treat
visiting preachers.
Welcome is
essential in Jesus’ teachings. Welcome the stranger. Welcome the poor. Welcome
the outcast. Welcome the immigrant. Welcome the powerless. Welcome the tired.
Welcome the lost. Welcome the children.
Welcome
everyone.
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