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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...

Gospel as a sign that one has embraced the message and person of Jesus. In the Acts of the Apostles’ description of Paul and Silas’s missionary journey, Lydia (16:11–15), the Philippian jailer (16:25–34), Jason (17:5–8), and Titius Justus (18:7–8) all manifest their receptivity to the gospel through welcoming and hosting Paul and Silas in their homes. The early Christian texts, then, of 1 Clement, James, Matthew, and Luke-Acts, testify that hospitality to strangers was not an optional practice for
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