The Power of Hospitality: Finding Healing and Wholeness in Community – Rosaria Butterfield

Rosaria Butterfield used to be a committed unbeliever, a leading thinker in queer studies, and a practicing lesbian. Then God used an invitation to dinner in a modest home, from a humble couple who lived out the Gospel daily, simply, and authentically, to draw Rosaria to himself. 

Dr. Butterfield shares her story in her book, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor’s Journey into Christian Faith

Rosaria is also the author of The Gospel Comes with a House Key, which points to the power of radically ordinary hospitality in a post-Christian world.

Learn more about Dr. Rosaria Butterfield.

 

KEY QUESTIONS:

• What is the connection between “hospital” and “hospitality”?
• How does God use hospitality to heal people?
• How can I practice hospitality with my disability(ies) or other limitations?
• How can the church practice hospitality?

 

KEY SCRIPTURES:

• “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families.” Psalm 68:5–6
• “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!” Psalm 133:1
• “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:35

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