The Gospel Comes with a House Key

Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World

By: Rosaria Butterfield

Narrated by: Rosaria Butterfield

Winner of the 2019 Christianity Today Book Award in the Christian Living & Discipleship Category

"This book is going to shake us all up in the most wonderfully destabilizing way."—Ray Ortlund, Lead Pastor, Immanuel Church, Nashville, Tennessee

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.

©2025 Rosaria Butterfield (P)2025 Crossway

Love thy neighbor, raw and real.

This is not a Christian fluff book about loving your neighbor. It’s raw and real. Displaying the power of how Jesus sat with sinners and we are called to do the same.

Inspiring

Absolutely inspiring. I’ve never read anything like it. It makes me want to determine how I can be hospitable immediately.

Great perspective on how hospitality should penetrate every Christian home and how simple it really is.

I loved that the voice you listen to was the actual author reading her own book.

Remarkable

A challenging, mind opening loving way to view the world. I will never see hospitality the same way. I think this book shares the heart of Jesus for a modern world!

Selfless love by thankful believers who represent Christ well.

The author’s statement was powerful about the impact on the world and the Church by really loving people and by living out the Gospel in front of them. The kindness of what she described should be more normal than unique. She gave the illustrations of the simplicity of sharing life and living with an open hand. She graciously exhibits believers with a thankful heart for God’s grace to them. Well done!