Invited
The Power of Hospitality in an Age of Loneliness
by Leslie Verner
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Pub Date Aug 13 2019 | Archive Date Aug 13 2019
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Description
Just come on over.
Many people today feel lonely, isolated, and disconnected from God and others. We crave authentic community, but we have no idea where to start. We’d be glad to cultivate friendships; but honestly, who’s got the time?
In Invited, writer Leslie Verner says real hospitality is not having a Pinterest-perfect table or well-appointed living room. True hospitality is not clean, comfortable, or controlled. It is an invitation to enter a sacred space together with friends and strangers. Through vivid accounts from her life and travels in Uganda, China, and Tajikistan, and stories of visiting congregations in the United States, Verner shares stories of life around the table and how hospitality is at the heart of Christian community.
What if we in the West learned about hospitality from people around the globe? What if our homes became laboratories of belonging? Invited will empower you to open your home, get to know your neighbors, and prioritize people over tasks. Holy hospitality requires more of Jesus and less of us. It leads not only to loving the stranger but to becoming the stranger.
Welcome to a new kind of hospitality.
Advance Praise
“Hospitality is such a powerful space where we get to practice giving and receiving, entering into mutuality and communion. Leslie Verner has experienced this larger hospitality—a belonging to the larger human family. In the pages of Invited, she has brought some of that wisdom and goodness to us.”
—IDELETTE MCVICKER, founder of SheLoves
“I shudder at the word hospitality because it has (almost) been weaponized in Christian circles, especially for women. As a single woman, I wondered if Invited was another veiled shame message pointing out how I was failing yet again. It is not; instead Leslie Verner breathes on the embers of connection we all long for, offering hope and examples of how you can invite others into your real life and forge life-giving relationships.“
—AMY YOUNG, author of Looming Transitions
“Hospitality is far more than an open home. It is way of life, the embodying of welcome in relationships and across cultures. Leslie Verner’s Invited is both an invitation to recognize our own hunger for community and a call to offer it to those around us. As you read, you’ll be inspired to lean into deeper, ever more authentic hospitality.“
—RACHEL PIEH JONES, author of Stronger than Death
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781513804330 |
| PRICE | $16.99 (USD) |
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