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

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

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

away, returning him to face the facts squarely: he was damaged goods, with no hope apart from Christ. And the leper was a better image bearer than we. He knew he was damaged goods.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.