Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Rosaria Butterfield,

entitled Ten Things You Should Know About Christian Hospitality.

Rosaria is the author of The Gospel Comes with a House Key,

Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in our post-Christian world.

Ten things you should know about Christian hospitality.

Written and read by Rosaria Butterfield.

1. Hospitality reflects the gospel.

Faithful Christians are and have always been a strange minority in a hostile world.

Redeemed by Christ, we have lost our old lives.

And with our lives, we have left behind the history, identity, and people who once claimed us. Conversion starts with the sacrifice of what once was, and the

gospel provides for what we have relinquished through hospitality.

When Peter says to Jesus, see, we have left everything and followed you, Jesus responds with this

comfort. Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters

or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the gospel who will not receive

a hundredfold. Now and this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers

and children and lands with persecutions and in the age to come, eternal life. Mark 10, 28 to 30.

The gospel comes with a house key, and that key unlocks the hundredfold of God's

provision of family and community for others. Hospitality is the ground zero of the Christian life.

Two, hospitality is spiritual warfare.

Hospitality that gathers brothers and sisters alongside unsaved neighbors and strangers

isn't charity or kindness.

Rather, it takes the gospel upstream of the culture war, where it belongs, and shakes the very gates of heaven for the souls of our neighbors.

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