Service and Hospitality: Augustine on Loving Service
Teaching on Service and Hospitality from Augustine of Hippo: Augustine on Loving Service
This is a spiritual discipline on love and motive, drawing on 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, Galatians 5:6 and 1 John 4:19-21.
Augustine taught that all service must flow from love, or it becomes mere duty. He wrote: "Love and do what you will. If you keep silence, keep silence out of love. If you cry out, cry out in love. If you correct, correct in love. If you spare, spare in love. Let the root of love be within; from this root, nothing can spring but what is good."…
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