Bonus: Your Home is an Embassy (Part 3) - My Home, God's Embassy

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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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My Home, God’s Embassy

Guest: Barbara Rainey

From the series: Your Home Is an Embassy (Day 3 of 5)

Air date: August 24, 2016

Bob: If you are a citizen of your homeland, it’s easy to forget that the Bible describes you differently. The Bible says you’re a stranger and an alien. Here’s Barbara Rainey.

Barbara: For the most part, we’ve forgotten that this isn’t our home. It is a little bit of a paradox to live in this land, and yet to be mindful that this isn’t our home. I don’t think we think about that enough. I think our roots have gone down too deep into the soil of this land, and we’ve forgotten that we really belong to another place, another time, and another King—that’s whom we serve.

Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, August 24th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. If this world is not our home / if we’re just passing through, how does that affect how we ought to live? We’re going to spend time thinking about that today with Barbara Rainey. Stay with us.

1:00

And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us.

Dennis: Bob, what’s your favorite candy bar? [Laughter]

Bob: Really? This is how you want to start?

Dennis: I want to start because we were talking about this before we came on the air. You asked Barbara—

Bob: She brought what looks—it looks—can we admit it? It looks like a candy bar.

Barbara: It does look like a candy bar.

Bob: She brought what looks like a candy bar.

Dennis: But it’s a protein bar.

Bob: It’s a protein bar.

Dennis: It’s—you know, it is cardboard covered with some kind of nutrient. [Laughter] I don’t know what it is.

Bob: No; no! It’s a candy bar with protein added. [Laughter] That’s what it is.

Barbara: That’s probably right!

Bob: That’s exactly what it is.

Dennis: But you asked her something I didn’t know the answer to. You asked her: “What was her favorite candy bar?” I’ve been married to her for coming up on 44 years, and I don’t know what her favorite candy bar is. I think the reason is—I don’t think I’ve seen her eat any. [Laughter]

Bob: You know, I asked, “If I were going down to the vending machine to get a candy bar, which one would you want?” You had to stop and think—

Barbara: Yes.

Bob: —because it’s been a while.

2:00

Barbara: It’s been a long time. In fact, I didn’t have an answer; so you rattled off about five or six names. I went: “Oh, yes! I used to like Milky Way®.”

Bob: And then Reese’s® came up; and you were like: “Oh, yes! I like those.”

Barbara: Yes; I could eat a Reese’s.

Bob: So you still will indulge occasionally.

Barbara: I still have a sweet tooth.

Bob: Alright.

Dennis: So, yours, Bob?

Bob: Mine would be the 72 percent dark chocolate made by the Izard Chocolate Company in downtown Little Rock.

Barbara: Oh, my goodness!

Bob: Yes! I want the pure bar.

Barbara: Okay; yes. It’s very good.

Bob: My friend Nathaniel Izard makes them.

Dennis: I didn’t ask what you’d like to have intravenously. [Laughter]

Bob: Mary Ann brings them home. He also has a wonderful chocolate-covered caramel that’s very good. I like the gourmet. If I’m going—

Barbara: That sounds really yummy.

Bob: Now, see? All of a sudden here—

Barbara: Yes; that sounds really yummy.

Dennis: Yes, it does. I like Toblerone, which is made in [Switzerland].

Bob: Those are very nice.

Dennis: That’s pretty good.

Let’s just do a little straw poll with our listeners and find out what their favorite candy bar is. Go online to FamilyLifeToday.com—

Bob: We’ve got the quiz up there.

Dennis: We’ve got the quiz, but it would be fun to see what wins.

3:00

The reason we were doing that—we were talking about going overseas/international. Barbara talked about how she nearly starved to death on a Josh McDowell mission trip to Russia.

Barbara: Yes.

Dennis: You said that the food you were fed every day—a little boxed lunch—what was in it?

Barbara: Well, we were on the buses, day after day, going to visit orphanages and different places. It was a wonderful, wonderful trip; but the hotel that we stayed in always packed us a little sack lunch to take on the bus. The lunch consisted of a Subway-type sandwich, a very paper-thin slice of meat that you could read through, a very thin—one very thin—tomato, and a very thin piece of lettuce. There was virtually no nutrition in it. It was really thin! [Laughter]...