The Will of God for You (and Your Child's Life) with Jordan Raynor

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This episode has so much purpose, content, and hope for families. It could even serve as a homeschooling study for your kids.

Jordan Raynor says, “Most Christians spend more time thinking about a one-week vacation than they do thinking about eternity…but it inevitably will lead us to settle for these wishy-washy half-truths about heaven.” Raynor goes on to explain, “Here’s why it matters we as adults and parents get this (truths about heaven) right. If we get this right, our kids’ hope for the future will be so much more real and so much more concrete, and their purpose in the present will become so much richer.”

If you want a theological education for your kids as it relates to finding their purpose, this episode is absolute gold.

If you’re struggling with whether your work has eternal impact, this episode is for you.

If you’re looking for a biblical framework for how to set a family vision for building for the Kingdom of God, Raynor provides the path forward.

In Jordan’s new book, The Sacredness of Secular Work: 4 Ways Your Job Matters (Even When You’re Not Sharing the Gospel), Raynor defines the terms sacred and secular and why it matters for us, and our children, to understand them. In our conversation, he addresses parents and kids through this lens and cites Charles Spurgeon, who once said, “For the Christian, nothing is secular, and everything is sacred.” Raynor encourages us: “Imagine the freedom if every child understood that when the Holy Spirit is in them, everywhere they go is sacred.”

Here are some hot topics we discuss:

Your life and work are a vehicle for bringing God eternal pleasure
Your life and work matter for eternity because it’s how we earn rewards and eternal treasures
Your life and work matter because through them you scratch off the thin veil between heaven and earth
How you can leverage your life and work to the instrumental end of making disciples

Show Notes:
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Yeah, imagine the freedom.
0:02.6	If every child understood that when the Holy Spirit is in them, everywhere they go is sacred, they wouldn't be, they wouldn't spend years like you and I did obsessing over the will of God for their lives.
0:17.2	They would have freedom to choose any genuinely good job, any genuinely good
0:23.5	vocation as equally sacred as that of their pastor or the missionary on their refrigerator.
0:29.6	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:35.4	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were
0:40.1	famous at home. Welcome back to the Famous and Home podcast. I hope your 2024 is off to a
0:50.6	fantastic start, an enjoyable start, a joyous start, whatever. I just hope you guys are
0:56.8	having a wonderful 2024. It is a new year. It's pretty wild. We interviewed our kids last week
1:02.6	on parenting and parenting through the lens of a child. And I think as we start 2024,
1:08.5	our heart and what we want to do is we really want to invite you into
1:12.2	a number of different conversations to set this stage, I think, for each of us in what it looks like
1:18.2	to build for the kingdom. And we're really big on that. And so this interview today with my
1:24.6	friend Jordan Rayner is a part of that. And I'll explain that here
1:28.6	in just a second and kind of what's upcoming. Before I do, I just want to explain a little bit of
1:32.5	what's happening in 2024. For those of you who listen regularly, I'd really want to encourage you
1:37.1	if you're not subscribed to our newsletter and to what's happening in the happening is a famous
1:42.6	at home. I encourage you to go sign up.
1:44.8	You can go to famous at home.com.
1:45.9	The link is in the show notes.
1:46.9	You can sign up for the starter bundle to get you a number of different articles
1:50.8	and a number of different resources to help you start being famous at home,
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