Bonus: Your Home is an Embassy (Part 5) - A Home For Hospitality

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Your Home is an Embassy (Part 1) - On Mission, Your Assignment as a Couple
Your Home is an Embassy (Part 2) - World Avoiders or World Changers?
Your Home is an Embassy (Part 3) - My Home, God's Embassy
Your Home is an Embassy (Part 4) - A Christian's Mission
Your Home is an Embassy (Part 5) - A Home For Hospitality

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A Home for Hospitality

Guest : Barbara Rainey

From the series: Your Home Is an Embassy (Day 5 of 5)

Air date: August 26, 2016

Bob: As an ambassador, your assignment is to represent your homeland—to represent the culture and the values. We are ambassadors for Christ. Barbara Rainey says that means: “When people see us, they should be reminded of who He is and what matters to Him.”

Barbara: Jesus talked to anybody and everybody. He welcomed everybody. His love was available for everybody. And as His ambassadors, we need to share His love with anyone. I think it’s a great exercise for families to teach your kids to reach out to their friends in school and to invite their friends to come to your home so that you can know who your kids are hanging out with in school; but also, so that you can have an influence on those kids and, maybe, give them a different experience—

Dennis: Yes; right.

Barbara: —on what home is supposed to be like because theirs may be very different.

Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, August 26th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I’m Bob Lepine.

1:00

When people see you, your home, your family, how much of Jesus are they seeing? How much do your values reflect the values of the kingdom? We’re going to spend time talking about that today with Barbara Rainey. Stay with us.

And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us. I’m actually not surprised to see the Reese’s® Peanut Butter cup in the position that it’s in on the poll on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com—this is the candy bar poll we’ve had going on this week.

Dennis: That is no way connected to the content of the broadcast.

Bob: No.

Dennis: Although the broadcast this week has been sweet because Barbara is with us.

Bob: That’s true. I’d like to just acknowledge that—

Dennis: How’s that? Come on, Bob—

Bob: —there’s no connection—

Dennis: —acknowledge that may be worth one point. Come on.

Bob: There’s no connection.

Dennis: One point.

Bob: It was you who brought this up at the beginning of the week. [Laughter] So, the fact that it’s completely random should not surprise listeners at all.

2:00

But do you think of a Reese’s Peanut Butter cup as a candy bar? See, I don’t think of it as a candy bar.

Barbara: It’s not. It’s a candy, but it’s not bar shaped.

Bob: It’s not a bar. So, it’s not—we put it up there as one of the choices, but I’m just a little surprised because I don’t think of it as a candy bar.

Barbara: I don’t either.

Dennis: It was not a random choice, either. We were talking about how you can be on mission as an ambassador. We’ve been talking this week, with Barbara—welcome back, Sweetheart. [Laughter]

Bob: At last, we see the connection—we see the connection between being on mission as an ambassador—

Dennis: I’m about to get there.

Bob: —and a candy bar.

Dennis: An ambassador knows whom he serves.

Bob: Yes.

Dennis: He knows and executes the mission of the one he serves.

Bob: Right.

Dennis: Third—

Bob: Waiting for the candy bar part.

Dennis: —he operates out of an embassy; and in this case, we’re challenging people to think about making their home an embassy.

Bob: Right.

Dennis: And we’ve got a little sign—a stainless steel sign—that says, “Embassy of the King.” And finally, I think a good ambassador, operating out of his embassy, needs to train his kids to know how to operate in the world.

3:00

Bob: Here’s the connection to candy bars—

Dennis: And Barbara—

Bob: —kids.

Barbara: Kids. [Laughter]

Dennis: Kids—yes; that’s it! [Laughter] We took the kids to Russia on a Josh McDowell trip to go visit orphanages.

Barbara: We did.

Dennis: And the way Barbara survived was a candy bar made only in Russia—it’s not exported, I’m sure. [Laughter] She survived all week because the sandwich, or whatever it was, had lettuce-thin meat.

Bob: The supplies were meager.

Dennis: They were. It was survivable only because of the candy bar. Thus—

Bob: Okay. It took a long way to get there, but that’s how we got to the candy bars.

Dennis: —thus, the straw poll. It’s okay.

Bob: Our focus, though, this week has been rethinking about our lives—thinking about being ambassadors /...