Good Guestwork

This book is a timely and prophetic invitation to follow Jesus where he is most often found-at the margins. With wisdom born of lived experience among Muslims and Christians across continents, the author offers a vision of ""good guestwork"" that dismantles fear and rivalry and makes space for genuine encounter, healing, and peace. A refreshing and courageous contribution to missiology and interfaith engagement. --John Azumah, PhD, Executive Director, The Sanneh Institute In Good Guestwork moving personal narrative and thoughtful theological reflection invite Christians into the challenging and beautiful work of loving God and loving neighbor. Sensenig brings readers to Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Chad, Iran, Kenya, Tanzania, and the USA as he explores what it means for a Christian to be a good neighbor to Muslims and what it means to be neighbored well by Muslims. -Rachel Pieh Jones, author of Stronger than Death and Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus. You need this book in your library. Sensenig brings a depth of scholarship and lived wisdom from Zanzibar, Kenya, and Chad - regions rich with Christian and Islamic traditions. Through careful scholarship and personal engagement, this book offers deeply respectful and insightful reflection on hospitality and peace - not merely as social courtesy, but as a spiritual imperative shared across both faiths. --Joseph Kwoma Ngolla, Eastleigh Fellowship Centre, Mennonite Church Kenya Good Guestwork invites followers of Jesus into a vital conversation that Western Christians too often neglect. Blending accessible theology with vivid stories, Sensenig shows how our discipleship deepens when we learn from our Muslim neighbors, and how such friendships bear crucial witness to God's peace in a world aching for wholeness. -Rev. Dr. Bethany McKinney Fox, author of Disability and the Way of Jesus: Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church When it comes to dialogue with Muslims, Sensenig knows what he's talking about - and practices what he believes. This book represents the kind of moral imagination that sees peace as a creative art. -Nik Bredholt, Secretary General, Religion & Society, Copenhagen, Denmark Sensenig dares the Church to reject fear and rivalry and instead embrace the costly way of hospitality with our Muslim neighbors. This book insists that we cannot follow Jesus faithfully while building walls of separation-discipleship means becoming vulnerable guests and generous hosts. Good Guestwork is a prophetic call to recover the gospel of peace, to risk friendship, and to discover Christ on the other side of our comfort. -J. Matthew Barnes, PhD, Vice President, Asbury Theological Seminary