Peanut Butter Pizza--and Our Homes, the "Bridge Between the Church and the World"

I loved how an article at DesiringGod talked about how our homes can be a 

"bridge between the church and the world."

At Christmas time we wanted to do something for Jonathan's work crew guys and their families. 

The last couple years Jonathan took them and our family out to eat, but this year we couldn't afford to do that, so we invited them all to our home for a Christmas dinner--after Christmas when things weren't quite so busy and hectic.

The girls and a couple of our friends helped us with cooking and decorating. Carrie had found this plaid table cloth at an after Christmas clearance.  We had ham, mashed potatoes, veggies, cranberry jello salad, rolls, and scrumptious peanut butter pizzas pictured above.
They are peanut butter cookie dough topped with marshmallows, peanuts, MandM's, and chocolate syrup.

"God has written...on the hearts of us all... a longing for dignity. Life without the Lord is hard. It has hard edges and steep slopes. Its betrayals hold out no hope, its sufferings hold out no redemption. Only life in Christ offers redemptive suffering."

 "Get to know your neighbors well enough to know where it hurts, and then accompany them in their suffering. Show — as well as tell — that Jesus comforts the suffering."

"Being available to neighbors means cutting back on your entertainment indulgences, building in margin time in your day, and budgeting to feed many more people than those who share your last name. Make sacrifices for your unsaved neighbors that mean something. Go out of your way for them."

"Being hospitable in a post-Christian world means meeting strangers and making them neighbors and, by God’s grace, welcoming neighbors into the family of God. Our homes are crucial for this. Our homes are the bridge between the church and the world."

from the following link:
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-best-weapon-is-an-open-door