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Too few Christians today, says Joshua Jipp, understand hospitality to strangers and the marginalized as an essential part of the church’s identity. In this book Jipp argues that God’s relationship to his people is fundamentally an act of hospitality to strangers, and that divine and human hospitality together are thus at the very heart of Christian faith. Jipp first provides a thorough...

that Israel’s prophets had demanded of Israel.8 The entire ministry of Jesus is appropriately captured in the phrase “divine hospitality to the stranger and sinner.”9 If Jesus’s mission is to enact the Lord’s hospitality as set forth in Isaiah, then it is no surprise that Luke portrays Jesus as an actual host who dispenses the Lord’s welcome by sharing meals with strangers, sinners, and outsiders. In fact, one of the primary ways in which Jesus enacts the
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