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

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Artfully woven into the fabric of who we are, each of us possesses an urgency to be included, an ache to be known, and a longing to be welcomed. In this book, Rosaria describes how the good news of the gospel not only meets our deepest needs but transforms us into cohosts who invite others to meet Jesus. Rosaria Butterfields enthusiasm for the unparalleled expression of hospitalitythe Son of God on the cross drawing all men to himselfis what energizes her to practice radically ordinary hospitality and invite us all to do the same. This book will stir your imagination to generate creative ways to incorporate radically ordinary hospitality into your own life as well.

Gloria Furman, author, Missional Motherhood and Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full

God strongly advances his cause by raising up prophetic voices of fresh insight, bold words, and powerful impact. Rosaria Butterfield is just such a voice for God in our time. The Gospel Comes with a House Key is Rosarias heart reaching out to our hearts, calling us to love our neighbors with sacrificial hospitality. This book is going to shake us all up in the most wonderfully destabilizing way.

Ray Ortlund, Lead Pastor, Immanuel Church, Nashville, Tennessee

This book isnt for those who want to live the comfortable Christian life. Rosaria proves there is no such thing. She has a unique way of blending personal story and theological teaching that challenges the reader to engage in areas of both agreement and disagreement. I was sharpened well in both cases.

Aimee Byrd, author, Why Cant We Be Friends? and No Little Women

Its easier than ever to live in communities with no real sense of community. Neighbors dont know neighbors, and our lives are lived online rather than on the front porch. Rosaria Butterfield demonstrates how living a life of radically ordinary hospitality can allow strangers to become neighbors, and, by Gods power, those neighbors can become part of Gods family. I couldnt put this book downits compelling, challenging, and convicting.

Melissa Kruger, author, The Envy of Eve and Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood

One cannot spend any time at all with Rosaria Butterfield without a renewed sense of how good the good news really is. This book is a needed call to the church to model the hospitality of our Lord. As our culture faces a crisis of loneliness, this is the book we need. The book will inspire you and leave you with a notebook filled with ideas for how to practically engage your neighbors with the welcome of the gospel.

Russell Moore, President, The Ethics & Religious Liberties Commission

The biblical call to show hospitality is one of the most overlooked or misunderstood commands in Scripture. We either ignore it or mistake it for what our culture calls entertaining. Rosaria Butterfield gives us a vision of hospitality that pulses with the beating heart of the gospel itself. We know a God who sought us out, took us in, made us family, and seated us at his table. Its a vision that is bracing and attractive. It daunts us, but it shouldnt. I wonder how different our homes, churches, and culture would look if we took it to heart.

Sam Allberry, Speaker, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries; author, Why Bother with Church? and Is God Anti-Gay?

One of the hallmarks of the people of God is supposed to be hospitality. But in an age of commuter churches, towns disemboweled by shopping malls, and lives that are overscheduled and full of ceaseless activity, hospitality is something which, like true friendship, is at a premium. In this book, Rosaria Butterfield makes a bold case for putting hospitality back into the essential rhythm of the churchs daily life. She sets the bar very highand there is plenty of room here for disagreement on some of the proposals and detailsbut the basic case, that church is to be a community marked by hospitality, is powerfully presented and persuasively argued.

Carl R. Trueman, William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, Princeton University

The Gospel Comes with a House Key

The Gospel Comes with a House Key

Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post - Christian World

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

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

Copyright 2018 by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Published by Crossway
1300 Crescent Street
Wheaton, Illinois 60187

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law. Crossway is a registered trademark in the United States of America.

Published in association with the literary agency of Wolgemuth & Associates, Inc.

Portions of chapter 5, The Gospel Comes with a House Key: The Seal of Hospitality, are taken from Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ (Pittsburgh, PA: Crown & Covenant, 2015), 14764. Used by permission.

Cover design: Micah Lanier

First printing 2018

Printed in the United States of America

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Scripture references marked NLT are from The Holy Bible, New Living Translation , copyright 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL, 60189. All rights reserved.

All emphases in Scripture quotations have been added by the author.

Hardcover ISBN: -1-4335-5786
ePub ISBN: -1-4335-5789
PDF ISBN: -1-4335-5787
Mobipocket ISBN: -1-4335-5788

Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data

Names: Butterfield, Rosaria Champagne, 1962 - author.

Title: The Gospel comes with a house key : practicing radically ordinary hospitality in our post - Christian world / Rosaria Champagne Butterfield.

Description: Wheaton : Crossway, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017031557 (print) | LCCN 2018000815 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433557873 (pdf) | ISBN 9781433557880 (mobi) | ISBN 9781433557897 (epub) | ISBN 9781433557866 (hc)

Subjects: LCSH: HospitalityReligious aspectsChristianity. | StrangersReligious aspectsChristianity.

Classification: LCC BV4647.H67 (ebook) | LCC BV4647.H67 B88 2018 (print) | DDC 241/.671dc23

LC record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2017031557

Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

2018-03-16 09:57:09 AM

For

Kent Butterfield,

faithful husband, leader of our household, father of our children, my courageous pastor, and humble disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.