This week in our pastoral letter, we’re going to think about a topic that is vital for life in the church: hospitality.  We will look at several New Testament exhortations to hospitality in this letter, but I want to focus on 1 Peter 4:9: “Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.” Life in the early church to whom Peter wrote these words was exceedingly difficult.  Internally,  there were the pressures of theological controversy, division, and relational strife.  Outwardly, there was the reality of increasing persecution from the Roman government.  There was nothing easy about being a Christian in the first or second century.  If ever a group of people had…