Radically ordinary hospitality characterizes those who don’t fuss over different worldviews represented at the dinner table. The truly hospitable aren’t embarrassed to keep friendships with people who are different. They don’t buy the world’s bunk about this. They know that there is a difference between acceptance and approval, and they

And when Jesus fulfilled the law by dying on the cross and rising by his own power to sit at God the Father’s right hand, he gave

earth, he wasn’t afraid to touch hurting people. He drew people in close. He met them empty and left them full. Jesus turned everything upside down.

Because that is the point—building the church and living like a family, the family of God. My prayer is that you will stop being afraid of strangers, even when some strangers are dangerous.

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.

It knows what conversion means, what identity in Christ does, and what repentance creates. It knows that sin is deceptive.

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

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 shows this skeptical, post-Christian world what authentic Christianity looks like.