Carolyn Lacey: Extraordinary Hospitality (for Ordinary People)
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Hospitality sounds exhausting. But author Carolyn Lacey knows hospitality can be extraordinary and oh-so-ordinary, welcoming people as God welcomes us.
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| 0:00.0 | We forget that loving others is a way in which we love God with heart, soul, mind and strength. |
| 0:06.0 | When we put ourselves out there and show care to someone, even if it's rejected, not received well, |
| 0:13.0 | the Lord is pleased with us, and we've shown love for Him in the way we love others. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our Family Life app. |
| 0:41.0 | This is Family Life Today. |
| 0:49.0 | So my question today is, do you have like a greatest hospitality fail? |
| 1:03.0 | Yes. |
| 1:04.0 | You do? |
| 1:05.0 | Yes. The time we had the homeless man live with us, and I let him start rearranging the furniture in the house. |
| 1:13.0 | That could have been a fail. |
| 1:15.0 | Dude, I didn't set any boundaries. |
| 1:17.0 | I mean, that's a long story we can get into later, but I was shocked that you invited some stranger sitting beside us on Easter Sunday in church. |
| 1:27.0 | When the pastor said, hey, say hi to your neighbor. You turn and talk to some guy that looked like he just came off to street again just because everybody was dressed up. |
| 1:35.0 | And he sort of wasn't. And then you turn to me and said, hey, he's coming to lunch after church. I'm like, what? |
| 1:40.0 | And then when he was eating dinner with us, I thought, oh, he doesn't have anywhere to live. |
| 1:45.0 | And I remember looking at you like, Jimmy should just live with us. |
| 1:49.0 | You gave me this look. |
| 1:50.0 | And he did. |
| 1:51.0 | Well, we'll get back to that later. |
| 1:53.0 | But we're talking about hospitality today because we have on Family Life Today, Carolyn Lacey, her first time ever visiting us on Family Life Today. |
| 2:02.0 | Carolyn, welcome to Family Life. |
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