The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World

(Kristin’s mom) at Elmo’s, and Paula sat us down at a

watch us struggle with our own sins—both the sins of our doing and the sin nature with which we wage daily combat.

When our Christian homes are open, we make transparent to a watching world what Christ is doing with our bodies, our families, and our world. When we daily gather with family of God in organic and open and communal ways and invite those who do not yet know Christ to enter, we accompany one another in suffering. We bear one another’s burdens.

The purpose of radically ordinary hospitality is to build, focus, deepen, and strengthen the family of God, pointing others to the Bible-believing local church, and being earthly and spiritual good to everyone we know.

Radically ordinary hospitality is this: using your Christian home in a daily way that seeks to make strangers neighbors, and neighbors family of God. It brings glory to God, serves others, and lives out the gospel in word and deed.

“When God’s grace changes our status from rebel to redeemed, we are empowered by his Spirit to obey him. We are transformed by the renewing of our minds (Rom. 12:2) into his likeness (2 Cor. 3:18). Joyful obedience is the evidence of our love for Jesus (John 14:15).”2 When we receive God’s saving grace, can we do this? Can we give until it hurts? Y

how do we as Christians live in

contagious grace as practiced by ordinary people like me and you, desperately needed, especially now, in our post-Christian world.

his people the power to overcome the sin that enslaves them.