“Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.” Romans 12:13

Dear Lord, You want us to be there for your people. Help me to own the people in my church in my heart and treat them as one of my own dear family members. You have brought them into your family by grace just as you did me. Make me resilient to love them even if they let me down. Make them patient and loving toward me even when I am not at my best. Give me the time and foresight to invite them into my home and do life together with them. Help me give rides and share vehicles the way my parents modeled for me with our church friends when I was growing up. Make our church like one big family and start with me. Amen.

Loving your Christian friends through thick and thin is loving God who gave them to you.