#83: The Power of Invitation – Changing a Generation by Opening Your Door with Jen Schmidt
Famous at Home
Josh + Christi Straub
4.8 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
But what if you knew that opening your front door had the power to radically change the world around you? To make an impact and leave a legacy with everyday invitations?
Jen Schmidt has set out to reframe how we think about hospitality and to equip us to walk a road of welcome in our daily lives. Jen knows that every time we choose open-door living—whether in our homes or by taking hospitality on the road—those we invite in get to experience the lived-out love of Jesus, our kids grow up in a life-lab of generosity, and we trade insecurity for connection.
In this episode, we talk to Jen about how you and your family can offer the life-changing gift of invitation, no matter the stage of life your family is in. We talk about:
* The freedom of hospitality, not the burden of it
* How invitation gives purpose to our kids and family
* The difference between hospitality and entertaining
* How your invitation can expand beyond your home
* Ways you can see your home as the most likely location for changing the world around you, one open door at a time.
Show Notes:
To learn more about Jen's book and Bible study, Just Open the Door, click here.
For information on The Becoming Conference, click here.
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| 0:00.0 | We all have family picture frames. |
| 0:11.8 | Who are the people in yours? |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Josh. |
| 0:14.4 | And I'm Christy. |
| 0:15.8 | In This Together is a podcast where we discuss topics related to today's family. |
| 0:23.4 | We also go behind the scenes to share stories from our own crooked picture frame. And we interview guests to discover how their |
| 0:28.5 | stories can give us insight on becoming families who live, love, and lead well. Because you're |
| 0:34.3 | not alone. We're in this together. |
| 0:40.4 | This episode of the In This Together podcast is brought to you by Lifeway Women. |
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| 1:00.8 | Welcome back to the In This Together podcast. Today we have a really great conversation with Jen Schmidt, who has written a book about hospitality, though she |
| 1:08.2 | doesn't want you to think of that word during this conversation. |
| 1:12.4 | Her book is called Just Open the Door, How One Invitation Can Change a Generation. |
| 1:17.3 | And this is one of those conversations that literally makes you sigh in relief and totally |
| 1:26.3 | reframes your view on inviting those from without your home into your |
| 1:33.1 | home. |
| 1:33.5 | Well, and I think the great thing about the conversation is that it helps us reframe who we are |
| 1:39.6 | as a family and gives us purpose as a family. |
| 1:41.8 | We have purpose. |
| 1:42.9 | And as we enter into the holidays here coming up with |
| 1:45.1 | Thanksgiving and Christmas, we're able to think about what it looks like to open up not, not, |
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