The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
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The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
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.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield • The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
how do we as Christians live in
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield • The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
Radically ordinary hospitality—those who live it see strangers as neighbors and neighbors as family of God. They recoil at reducing a person to a category or a label. They see God’s image reflected in the eyes of every human being on earth. They know they are like meth addicts and sex-trade workers. They take their own sin seriously—including the s
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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.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield • The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
that launches a contagion of grace for those who believe, repent, turn, and follow, a contagion of grace that allows the believer to love those who hate in return and to pray, serve, and sacrifice so that others, like the nameless Hebrew slave, can know that God is alive and rescues those who call.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield • The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
watch us struggle with our own sins—both the sins of our doing and the sin nature with which we wage daily combat.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield • The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
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 courageousl
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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.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield • The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
their friendship. Jesus dined with sinners, but he didn’t sin with sinners. Jesus lived in the world, but he didn’t live like the world. This is the Jesus paradox. And it defines those who are willing to suffer with others for the sake of gospel sharing and gospel living, those who care more for integrity than appearances.