27 min.
A Plain Answer: The Gospel Comes with a House Key - Dr. Rosaria Butterfield Redeemer Broadcasting : A Plain Answer
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This interview was originally recorded nearly six years ago, yet is directly applicable to our present time. Since the recording, our guest has authored another book titled: Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age.
We are privileged to hear the story of how hospitality was used of the Lord, as a proximate means, to win Rosaria Butterfield to Himself. As she explains, her book is about simply being ourselves and loving our neighbors, inviting them into our homes - into our lives. She makes the distinction that she is not advocating "preaching the world to the church." But what happens to the family when our children see Christ powerfully at work in the lives of wounded people that cross our paths and whom the Lord sovereignly changes? This sort of thing profoundly and positively affects our children. We also discuss the idea of building our lives so that there is margin. We are all so busy - how do we do that? Her book is titled: "The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World." You can find the book at rosariabutterfield.com, or Crossway(https://www.crossway.org/books/the-gospel-comes-with-a-house-key-hcj/), or Amazon. From an article she wrote: "Radically ordinary hospitality�those who live it�see strangers as neighbors and neighbors as family of God. They recoil at reducing a person to a category or a label. They see God�s image reflected in the eyes of every human being on earth. They know they are like meth addicts and sex-trade workers. They take their own sin seriously�including the sin of selfishness and pride. They take God�s holiness and goodness seriously. They use the Bible as a lifeline, with no exceptions." Participants: Dr. Rosaria Butterfield, Dan Elmendorf
This interview was originally recorded nearly six years ago, yet is directly applicable to our present time. Since the recording, our guest has authored another book titled: Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age.
We are privileged to hear the story of how hospitality was used of the Lord, as a proximate means, to win Rosaria Butterfield to Himself. As she explains, her book is about simply being ourselves and loving our neighbors, inviting them into our homes - into our lives. She makes the distinction that she is not advocating "preaching the world to the church." But what happens to the family when our children see Christ powerfully at work in the lives of wounded people that cross our paths and whom the Lord sovereignly changes? This sort of thing profoundly and positively affects our children. We also discuss the idea of building our lives so that there is margin. We are all so busy - how do we do that? Her book is titled: "The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World." You can find the book at rosariabutterfield.com, or Crossway(https://www.crossway.org/books/the-gospel-comes-with-a-house-key-hcj/), or Amazon. From an article she wrote: "Radically ordinary hospitality�those who live it�see strangers as neighbors and neighbors as family of God. They recoil at reducing a person to a category or a label. They see God�s image reflected in the eyes of every human being on earth. They know they are like meth addicts and sex-trade workers. They take their own sin seriously�including the sin of selfishness and pride. They take God�s holiness and goodness seriously. They use the Bible as a lifeline, with no exceptions." Participants: Dr. Rosaria Butterfield, Dan Elmendorf
27 min.