I've been waiting for Rosaria Butterfield's new book, The Gospel Comes with a House Key, ever since she and her husband, Kent, spoke at our theology conference two years ago. The books arrived yesterday, so I started flipping through a copy. My first reaction is - "Fasten your seat belt." I don't know where the idea came in that hospitality = entertaining and entertaining = Martha Stewart. Maybe it's my own introvert insecurity making a wrong connection, but Rosaria's book couldn't be farther from this. Radical ordinary hospitality gives evidence of faith in Jesus's power to save. It doesn't get dug in over politics or culture or where someone stands on current events. It knows what conversion means, what identity in Christ does, and what repentance creates. It knows that sin is deceptive. To be deceived means to be taken captive by an evil force to do its bidding. It knows that people need to be rescued from their sin, not to be giv...