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

by Rosaria Butterfield

Hardcover, 2018

Status

Available

Call number

241.671

Publication

Crossway (2018), 240 pages

Description

What did God use to draw a radical, committed unbeliever to himself? Did God take her to an evangelistic rally? Or, since she had her doctorate in literature, did he use something in print? No, God used an invitation to dinner in a modest home, from a humble couple who lived out the gospel daily, simply, and authentically. With this story of her conversion as a backdrop, Rosaria Butterfield invites us into her home to show us how God can use this same 'radical, ordinary hospitality' to bring the gospel to our lost friends and neighbors. Such hospitality sees our homes as not our own, but as God's tools for the furtherance of his kingdom as we welcome those who look, think, believe, and act differently from us into our everyday, sometimes messy lives-helping them see what true Christian faith really looks like.… (more)

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LibraryThing member thedenathome
Excellent resource! Well written, but not an easy read because it will challenge your day to day style of life. Butterfield thinks well, is very thorough and gives compelling anecdotal evidence for this practice of gospel hospitality She makes a riff on Imagine by John Lennon, not stylistically nor
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musically but as a thought experiment. Powerful and practical.
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LibraryThing member wpcalibrary
What did God use to draw a radical, committed unbeliever to himself? Did God take her to an evangelistic rally? Or, since she had her doctorate in literature, did he use something in print? No, God used an invitation to dinner in a modest home, from a humble couple who lived out the gospel daily,
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simply, and authentically.
With this story of her conversion as a backdrop, Rosaria Butterfield invites us into her home to show us how God can use this same “radical, ordinary hospitality” to bring the gospel to our lost friends and neighbors. Such hospitality sees our homes as not our own, but as God’s tools for the furtherance of his kingdom as we welcome those who look, think, believe, and act differently from us into our everyday, sometimes messy lives―helping them see what true Christian faith really looks like.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

240 p.; 8.6 x 1.1 inches

ISBN

143355786X / 9781433557866
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