Bonus: Your Home is an Embassy (Part 1) - On Mission, Your Assignment as a Couple

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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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On Mission: Your Assignment as a Couple

Guest: Dennis Rainey

From the series: Your Home Is an Embassy (Day 1 of 5)

Air date: August 22, 2016

Bob: Dennis Rainey believes that marriage is about a lot more than just happily ever after. He believes it’s about two people being on a mission together.

Dennis: Jesus Christ didn’t just come to give you a happy marriage and a family that takes perfect Christmas card photos. He came to use your marriage as a living message of Christ’s relationship with the church—a profound mystery / a model of covenant-keeping love even during hard times—and to use your family as a training center for the next generation of Great Commission warriors and soldiers.

Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Monday, August 22nd. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I’m Bob Lepine. Do you know what your mission is, as a married couple; and are you on mission together?

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We’ll explore that today. Stay with us.

And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us on the Monday edition. Do you ever get tired of challenging couples to be about the Great Commission—to be on mission together as a couple?

Dennis: Never.

Bob: You don’t think: “I’m starting to sound like a broken record. I’ve said this so often”?
Dennis: Well, I do feel like that sometimes. [Laughter] I wonder if our listeners get tired of me challenge them to get in the game and be a part of what God’s up to on the planet. It’s the greatest adventure of a lifetime, Bob—is to join God in what He’s doing here on the earth. I mean, it’s been our privilege—Barbara and me for the last, almost 44 years now / and here on FamilyLife Today, coming up on 24 years.

Bob: That’s right. And today, we’re going to hear that charge afresh. In fact, you spoke recently to an audience of couples, urging them to be in the game and to understand the good works that God has prepared for us to be involved with before we were even created.

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Dennis: That’s right. And before we get to that message, I just want to say a hearty “Thanks!”—and I mean this—I just want to say, “Thanks,” to you who are Legacy Partners and donors to FamilyLife Today. I just want you to know you keep us on the air, here on FamilyLife Today, ministering to millions, not only here in America, but globally in more than three dozen countries and who knows how many millions of people around the world. I just want to say, “Thank you for standing with us.”

If you haven’t given or if you gave some time ago and haven’t given recently, I’d just like to challenge you to join us on our mission of deploying God’s people to do God’s work in marriages and families and, also, in their communities. I’d like to invite you to give a gift, financially, to FamilyLife Today and help keep us on the air.

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We’re short in terms of the number of donors that we’ve had join us over the last seven months. This month of August, I’ve been coming to our listeners, occasionally—not complaining / not whining—but just saying, “Hey, if you believe in what we’re doing / you believe that marriages and families are in trouble and need biblical help and hope that we provide, here on FamilyLife Today, then, would you keep us going strong and help us expand?” I need your help. And I need your help now.

Bob: It’s easy to make a donation. You can go to FamilyLifeToday.com and do it online, or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make a donation over the phone. Again, we do appreciate those of you who stand with us in this ministry. If it’s been awhile since you’ve made a donation—or maybe, you’ve never supported this ministry—would you consider doing that today? Go to FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-“F” as in family, “L” as in life, and then the word, “TODAY.”

Alright, let’s hear the message that you shared recently as you were challenging couples to be a part of the work that God has called each one of us to in strengthening marriages and families.

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Here’s Dennis Rainey.

[Recorded Message]

Dennis: You know, you have no idea what God is up to in your marriage and where you may find yourself six hours from now / six weeks from now; but God wants you to know who you are, according to this Book, and what you’re all about as you leave here. There are a lot of believers today that suffer from spiritually amnesia. Their souls have been erased by the enemy, and they have been tricked to believe that they are someone that they’re really not.

Do you know who you are, spiritually speaking? Do you know why you are here? What’s your purpose as a couple? Every couple here needs to have some sense of a purpose that you’re about, according to God’s design.

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Who are you?

If you were born again by faith in Jesus Christ / His finished work on the cross, at the moment you placed your faith in Christ, more than 30 things happened to you that changed your spiritual identity, as a man / as a woman. One of three things that occurred—that I’ll just list real quickly—is that you became / you were adopted as a child of God. John, Chapter 1, verse 12 and 13 say this—it says, “But to all who did receive Him,”—speaking of Christ—“who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born not of blood nor the will of flesh nor of the will of man, but born of God.” You were adopted into God’s family. You’re His child. That makes Him your Father.

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