Creating Meaningful Mealtimes

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Ryan and Lana Rush share practical ways parents can create meaningful mealtimes with their children, to nourish them physically and spiritually. Mealtimes give Christians an opportunity to not only build up their own family, but also to invite others to the table who are outside of their typical circle and show them the love of Christ

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0:00.0	If you are hurting, invite someone over to eat. If you are depressed, invite someone over to eat.
0:09.6	If you are having trouble with your children, invite someone over to eat. The table is built for
0:15.4	community. We are built for community. And I think that if we are willing to take that leap and do that thing
0:22.9	that we think is so hard, we're going to get exactly what we need. That's Lana Rush and she and her
0:28.9	husband Ryan are here today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly talking about how to have
0:33.4	meaningful meal times. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller.
0:43.9	John, I know today's conversation is going to apply to everybody because it's so core to what families do, sitting around a table, eating together.
0:48.0	And man, I want to say it again because it's important for me to compliment my wife.
0:52.5	Gene did a fantastic job of bringing us together
0:57.7	not just five nights a week, which is what our guests are going to say. But I mean, it was
1:02.7	seven nights a week when we had dinner together. It was rare only when I'm traveling out of town
1:08.3	that we wouldn't eat together. And we still hold that today.
1:11.5	I mean, Trent comes over and Trent, Troy, Jane and I have a great Sunday meal together. He has
1:16.7	been great to keep that going. And it's so much fun to sit and talk for an hour, hour and a half.
1:22.6	We sit at the dinner table. So what our guests are going to talk about today, I fully endorse because there's so
1:29.2	many good things that get transferred in that dinner time, both directions from our kids to us as
1:34.5	parents and from parents to kids. Yeah, and there are a lot of practical ideas along the way here
1:39.1	today. Ryan Rush is a pastor and has a PhD in Christian leadership, and he and Lana have three daughters.
1:46.1	Ryan has a book called Restore the Table, Discovering the Powerful Connections of Meaningful Mealtimes.
1:52.7	You can learn more about our guests and that book. At our website, we've got the link in the show notes.
1:58.3	Welcome to both of you. Thanks for being with us.
2:00.3	I'm honored to be with you. Thank you. I'm curious now. I don't want to start a fight,
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