Hospitality: The Convivial Mission of God

Americans have plenty of food and drink but have forgotten how to feast. Our poor love of God and neighbor is reflected in our aversion to the real-world cost, tedium, labor and inconveniences of being hospitable.

But, as the first host, God makes room for us, welcoming us, and inviting us into His life. Thus, wherever the church practices hospitality and festivity, the kingdom of God follows.

In this book, Mark Brians II and Drew A. Knowles Jr. call for a corporate return to the regular practice of biblical hospitality and festivity within the church. In an age of loneliness and isolation and food-porn, an age in which feasting and hospitality are largely absent from the human experience, we must be real-life, bread-breaking people.