Home: the Center of Ministry

Hey,

In this age of securing professionals for everything, we have lost sight of one key truth.

God ordained the home to be the center of ministry.
There are tons of examples in the Bible and in history where small things started in homes.

Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his garage.
Pierre Omidyar started Ebay in an apartment.
Sergei Brin and Larry Page started Google in their college dorm room.
And look where they are today!

My family has personally experienced that on a much smaller scale with the conference we just hosted two weeks ago.
Entrepreneur Days, which served over 300 guests from 30 states including Alaska, California, Washington, and Florida, started in my living room just a few years ago.
We even had guests from Saudi Arabia and Canada.

This past weekend, I wanted to host a double baby shower for my daughter and my daughter-in-law and so my old friends could meet my son-in-law and my daughter-in-law.
But since I have been a bit busy with the conference lately, my house isn’t in “show shape.”
In fact, parts of it are trashed.

I considered renting the hall at the volunteer fire station down the road so I wouldn’t have to clean the house.

But I started thinking about my purpose, as I always do.
Home is supposed to be the center of ministry. It always has been.
So I rounded up the kids and we focused on cleaning the public spaces.
We just shut the doors to the rooms we didn’t get to.
Ever done that?
(I know you have!)

So yesterday, we had a glorious event! The boys all stayed.
Drew even stayed and played our silly baby games.
He didn’t win the diapering competition but his energy efficient house stories and his $66 power bill during a month when temperatures averaged over 100 degrees was popular with the ladies.
(He’s building super energy efficient houses these days.)

After the event when all the guests had left, the kids were in such a great mood that I didn’t want to leave them to go to bed.
That’s what home is supposed to be like.

If life at your house isn’t what you’d like it to be, pray that the Lord gives you wisdom to change what needs to be changed.

Learn how to balance all the people and activities so you always keep the main thing the main thing.

(That’s why women are multi-taskers!)

When we keep our priorities right by honoring our spouse and children and focusing on establishing home as a place of ministry, God is pleased.

And everybody else is happy too!

So many books, so little time…

Rhea!
who wants to help you make your home the center of your business as well!

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