Elijah Abanto’s Reviews > The Gospel Comes with a House Key > Status Update

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.”

Chapter Four | “Jesus dines with sinners so that he can get close enough to touch us, so that he can participate in the intimacy of table fellowship as a helper and a healer. Jesus comes to change us, to transform us, so that after we have dined with Jesus, we want Jesus more than the sin that beckons our fidelity.”

Chapter Four: “God Never Gets the Address Wrong: The Providence of Hospitality” | Rosaria Butterfield, looking back to her troubled childhood, asks, “Did I have Christian neighbors, neighbors who might have helped?”

Chapter Three: “Our Post-Christian World” | “Christian hospitality brings together the mystery of union with Christ and the fellowship of the saints to gather in close the stranger in the outcast and the chronically lonely.”

Chapter Two: The Jesus Paradox: “We believe that Christians are called to live as the family of God and to draw strangers in neighbors in, with food and bended knee, beseeching God‘s grace to pour out on those who do not yet know the Lord, and to encourage and uplift and fuel those who do. We lock arms together because we must. Christians are not lone strangers.”

Chapter One: “Priceless: The Merit of Hospitality” | “Where else but a Christian home should neighbors go in times of unprecedented crisis? Where else is it safe to be vulnerable, scared, lost, hopeless?”