Above Reproach: Hospitable (1 Timothy 3:2)
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable… (1 Timothy 3:2) Because our task is noble, those who aspire to perform it must be irreproachably hospitable. To put it negatively, no one should be able to credibly accuse us of being inhospitable. The Greek word is ‘philoxenon’. […]