Contemplative Bible Reading

3 John, verse 5 (New Living Translation)

Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you.

John is writing to a dear friend named Gaius. John urges his friend to care for the traveling teachers who pass through. This holds true for those traveling teachers whom the friend does not know.

Where I live now—in this time and place—we don’t have traveling teachers who pass through. I guess we’ve outgrown or changed in some way that differs from the time of John and his friend.

There are plenty of persons on TV and the Internet who are teaching and are strangers to me. Are they part of the “traveling teachers” that John mentions? Should I care for those persons? All of them? Some of them?

I would like some help understanding this. Am I only to care for resident teachers these days?