Preface
 
Chapter 1: Priceless: The Merit of Hospitality
Chapter 2: The Jesus Paradox: The Vitality of Hospitality
Chapter 3: Our Post-Christian World: The Kindness of Hospitality
Chapter 4: God Never Gets the Address Wrong: The Providence of Hospitality
Chapter 5: The Gospel Comes with a House Key: The Seal of
Hospitality
Chapter 6: Judas in the Church: The Borderland of Hospitality
Chapter 7: Giving up the Ghosts: The Lamentation of Hospitality
Chapter 8: The Daily Grind: The Basics of Hospitality
Chapter 9: Blessed Are the Merciful: The Hope of Hospitality
Chapter 10: Walking the Emmaus Road: The Future of Hospitality

Conclusion: Feeding the Five Thousand: The Nuts and Bolts and Beans and Rice
Acknowledgments
Notes
Recommended Reading
General Index
Scripture Index

“Few books have challenged me as deeply as The Gospel Comes with a House Key. With biblical conviction and great warmth, Rosaria Butterfield shows how ‘radically ordinary hospitality’ can become an extraordinary means of God’s grace to folks who are lonely, confused, and hostile toward the truth. Beautifully written with engaging stories woven throughout, this book demonstrates that opening our homes and lives can be a powerful witness to Christ. It is a call to love our neighbors and proclaim Christ with greater faithfulness. This book will both convict and inspire you.”
Becket Cook, author, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption; host, The Becket Cook Show

“This updated version of The Gospel Comes with a House Key, featuring new and probing discussion questions, will serve to continue the conversation my friend Rosaria Butterfield started back in 2018. Rosaria and I come from vastly different backgrounds in almost every way. I admit her self-described personality and beliefs would have scared me to death had I known her in Syracuse. But praise God, at just the right time, the Lord saved Rosaria, and she has been using her incredibly keen mind for the glory of Christ ever since. We are blessed to be taught by her as she courageously speaks the truth in love on a host of topics, including the important and often neglected issue of biblical hospitality. Read this book. Discuss it with others. Apply it to your personal situation without guilt. And thank God for the gift that Rosaria is to Christ’s church.”
Mary K. Mohler, Director, Seminary Wives Institute, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; author, Growing in Gratitude and Susannah Spurgeon: Lessons for a Life of Joyful Eagerness in Christ

“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 Butterfield’s enthusiasm for the unparalleled expression of hospitality—the Son of God on the cross drawing all men to himself—is 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, Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full and Labor with Hope: Gospel Meditations on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood  

“It’s easier than ever to live in communities with no real sense of community. Neighbors don’t 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 God’s power, those neighbors can become part of God’s family. I couldn’t put this book down—it’s compelling, challenging, and convicting.”
Melissa B. Kruger, author; Vice President of Discipleship Programming, The Gospel Coalition

“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 that, 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 church’s daily life. She sets the bar very high—and there is plenty of room here for disagreement on some of the proposals and details—but the basic case, that church is to be a community marked by hospitality, is powerfully presented and persuasively argued.”
Carl R. Trueman, Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies, Grove City College