My grandparents began hiding Jews soon after the Waffen-SS confiscated the top floor of their church for a regional headquarters. In the basement of that same building, right under Nazi noses, a shelter was made. My grandfather was the pastor of this church. He figured the Jewish hideaways would be as safe there as anywhere.
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1 [ Back ] Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), 13.
2 [ Back ] The life and writing of Dr. Pohl has made an indelible impact on my life. Almost everything I've learned about hospitality comes from her.
3 [ Back ] For Geerhardus Vos, "The Wonderful Tree," see http://www.kerux.com/documents/KeruxV6N2A1.asp/ http://www.kerux.com/documents/KeruxV6N2A1.asp .
4 [ Back ] Vos, "The Wonderful Tree."
5 [ Back ] For a full-length treatment on Jesus' table fellowship with sinners in the Gospels, see Craig Blomberg, Contagious Holiness: Jesus' Meals with Sinners (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2005).
6 [ Back ] Pohl, Making Room, 15.
7 [ Back ] John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559 trans.; reprint, Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1960), 3.7.6.
8 [ Back ] Christine Pohl and Pamela J. Buck, Study Guide for Making Room (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001), 13.
9 [ Back ] I highly recommend gathering with a few people at your church to study Christine Pohl's book and explore the study guide for how to best recover hospitality as a Christian tradition.
10 [ Back ] Pohl, Making Room, 30.
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Issue: "Social Justice: Social Gospel?" Sept./Oct. 2011 Vol. 20 No. 5 Page number(s): 39-44
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