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Chapter Six: “Judas in the Church: The Borderland of Hospitality” | “Make no mistake: it is a million times safer to include unbelieving neighbors and people who have not claimed the blood of Jesus or citizenship of the church [in hospitality] than to let a potential Judas run loose in the church. Atheists do far less harm than hypocrites.”

Mentions of becoming a licensed foster family, youth aging out of foster care being at greater risk of homelessness, the importance of safety and being trauma-informed when caring for children that come from hard places, and the option of being a respite care provider for people who maybe aren’t called to foster care? Respectfully, I apologize, I was not familiar with your game, Rosaria Butterfield! 🫡

Mentions of becoming a licensed foster family, youth aging out of foster care being at greater risk of homelessness, the importance of safety and being trauma-informed when caring for children that come from hard places, and the option of being a respite care provider for people who maybe aren’t called to foster care?Respectfully, I apologize, I was not familiar with your game Rosaria Butterfield! 🫡

Chapter Five: “Learning how to practice mercy in a world that values covetousness, achievement, and acquisition takes some training, both in learning the new and unlearning the useless. We live in a world that is in great need of the Jesus paradox, of contagious grace.”

Quote from chapter 8: “It (radical ordinary hospitality in the Lord’s grace) meets people as strangers and makes them neighbors; it meets neighbors and makes them family.”