{"id":302078,"date":"2010-07-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/loving-others-through-our-giving\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:00:00","slug":"loving-others-through-our-giving","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/loving-others-through-our-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Others Through Our Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are daily opportunities to share the love of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2010-07-16.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"24.63M","filesize_raw":"25825215","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2821],"tags":[2712,4722,4818,4159,2209],"podcast_series":[7741],"cwp_profile":[9205],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-302078","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reaching-out","tag-adoption","tag-christianity","tag-evangelism","tag-gospel","tag-parenting","podcast_series-in-a-heartbeat","cwp_profile-sean-and-leigh-anne-tuohy","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/302078\/loving-others-through-our-giving","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/302078\/loving-others-through-our-giving","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yR9BG5CFAH\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/loving-others-through-our-giving\/\">Loving Others Through Our Giving<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/loving-others-through-our-giving\/embed\/#?secret=yR9BG5CFAH\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Loving Others Through Our Giving&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"yR9BG5CFAH\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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We were telling somebody and they went \u201cWell, that\u2019s a great idea!\u00a0 I never thought about that!\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy wife, who is a subtle as a sledge hammer, looks at that person and says, \u201cWhat\u2019s so hard about that?\u00a0 You know where they are every week.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like it\u2019s a surprise.\u201d\u00a0 She\u2019s like, \u201cYou ought to get to know your garbage man.\u201d\u00a0 The people kind of looked at us and said, \u201cYou know, I never thought about that.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Friday, July 16<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 The truth is most of us have never thought about the opportunities all around us every day to demonstrate generous, kind giving.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to hear about that today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, thanks for joining us.\u00a0 You know, when you get into the subject of spiritual gifts you get into a kind of a controversial subject, and I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever thought of the gift of giving.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the gifts that\u2019s listed in the spiritual gifts.\u00a0 That\u2019s one that most people don\u2019t think of as controversial until you start asking them\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2026to give.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes!\u00a0 Then it gets real controversial all of a sudden!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It really does.\u00a0 The couple I\u2019m about to introduce\u2026well, they don\u2019t live by this passage perfectly, but this is one of their core messages of their lives.\u00a0 It\u2019s from the second epistle to the church of Corinth, 2 Corinthians 9, verse 7.\u00a0 It says, \u201cEach one must give as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion for God loves a cheerful giver.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSean and Leigh Anne Tuohy join us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 You guys really believe in giving, don\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You can trace it right back to that passage.\u00a0 I mean, that\u2019s the one that got me.\u00a0 I\u2019ll never forget that one being explained, I\u2019d never heard the word \u2018tithe\u2019 before.\u00a0 It was a four-part series on giving, and you know how that goes over really well in a church.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, that\u2019s when everybody goes for vacation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Exactly!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They say that\u2019s the roaches to the light.\u00a0 You know, as soon as that light comes on, they take off, and it really hit with me.\u00a0 I never thought about the fact that you were happy about getting rid of something.\u00a0 We all try to amass and that\u2019s the exact passage that hit me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You actually got copies of the message the pastor gave and\u2026explain to our listeners what you did to get a mindset of giving.\u00a0 What you did with that message.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, I got the message, and at the time, I had to drive three to four hours a week each way to go to work and I would listen to it.\u00a0 I think I got it the first time hoping that I wouldn\u2019t agree with it because it certainly hit me when I heard it live.\u00a0 I just kept hearing it, kept hearing it, kept hearing it, and then it got to be almost like music to me.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt really became a part of my drive, and I kept waiting for that part of it, and then I\u2019d wait for another part of the passage.\u00a0 What I thought it was doing was putting me in a good mood to where I couldn\u2019t wait to do something in the way of giving.\u00a0 It\u2019s a mindset but it\u2019s really a heart set.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy wife when she\u2019s speaks to people, and she says it well, in that it doesn\u2019t matter the size.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter the amount.\u00a0 It matters how cheerful, and that\u2019s exactly correct.\u00a0 Just in common sense thinking, if you do something that you enjoy you\u2019re going to want to do it again.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s what God had in mind.\u00a0 \u201cIf I can get people to do things cheerfully, they\u2019re going to do it more.\u201d\u00a0 Well, what could you want have done more than giving?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis sounds horrible but I equated it to the person who plays golf and you\u2019re out there and your golf ball is sitting there, and it\u2019s so tempting to move the thing just a little bit here or there.\u00a0 Well, when you got into your mind that you\u2019re never going to touch that golf ball, that you\u2019re going to be happy with wherever it lands, you\u2019re going to play better golf.\u00a0 It\u2019s because you\u2019re never trying to think of a way out.\u00a0 You\u2019re looking for wherever it lands, it\u2019s going to be a positive situation, because you got to play it either way.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think that\u2019s the same way.\u00a0 If it\u2019s something that you\u2019re looking forward to you\u2019re going to do it more often and you\u2019re going to do it better.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You two\u2026your lives and your family embody giving in the movie, <em>The Blind Side<\/em>.\u00a0 Of course, it\u2019s a story of how you, as a business man in Memphis, and Leigh Anne, you as a mom, took in a young man who was homeless, out of the foster care system, and ultimately adopted him, Michael Oher, and raised him to graduate from high school, and then from college to going on to play professional football with the Baltimore Ravens.\u00a0 I keep wanting to refer to him as the Colts because they were the Colts when I grew up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, that means you\u2019re old.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, exactly!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Don\u2019t say that!\u00a0 That\u2019s radio, they don\u2019t know that!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They don\u2019t!\u00a0 They don\u2019t!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Hey, we\u2019re 27!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s exactly right!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut you guys, your lives and your story is a story of redemption and many times redemption begins with a gift.\u00a0 I know it does with our Heavenly Father.\u00a0 He sent His son and gave the gift of Him to redeem us, to give us eternal life.\u00a0 You gave a gift to a young man and have really recalibrated your lives around giving.\u00a0 How do you look at giving personally, Leigh Anne?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, it\u2019s kind of interesting.\u00a0 I think giving is immensely important.\u00a0 I believe in my heart that God\u2019s going to get it whether you give it or not.\u00a0 I\u2019ll tell these people that will say, \u201cI got to have my\u2026I need four new tires, my air conditioner broke, and my\u2026\u201d\u00a0 They just go through all these lists of things, and I just kind of laugh and go, \u201cYou just don\u2019t understand giving is a part of what we\u2019re all supposed to be doing.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI really believe that God gives you what you have to see what you\u2019re going to do with it.\u00a0 Sean and I both feel like we\u2019ve been very blessed and that what we have we are supposed to use it to do good things with it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tRecently in a drive-through line, I looked at the car behind me, and just from the looks of the car and the kids that were in it, it just didn\u2019t look like had a whole lot.\u00a0 So, I asked the lady, \u201cHow much is the order behind me?\u201d\u00a0 She told me, and I paid for it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI said, \u201cWhen they get up here, just tell them that the lady in front of them wanted to do something nice for them to do something nice for somebody else.\u201d\u00a0 It was like six dollars and eighty cents.\u00a0 I was ready to hand the lady a 20 dollar bill, and she was like seven bucks, and I was like, \u201cWow.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You must have been at Taco Bell, then.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tA shameless product placement.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, product placement.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Although it actually\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You get up every day, though, thinking about giving.\u00a0 That\u2019s how you live your life.\u00a0 I don\u2019t hear it being segmented over to Sunday morning when the offering plate is passed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No, that\u2019s an easy one\u2026the Sunday offering plate\u2019s a gimme.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>A gimme as in you\u2019re going to do that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, that\u2019s easy\u2026that\u2019s not even fun.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Let me ask you if you pull up to the stoplight and there\u2019s a guy there on the corner with the sign and the bucket, are you giving? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely.\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>But aren\u2019t you worried about being scammed?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Sean\u2019s philosophy, and the kids and I have adopted it, is God\u2019s going to judge our heart because we have the ability to give, and we\u2019re to give.\u00a0 But God\u2019s also going to judge his heart if he shouldn\u2019t have taken it, and he can deal with that.\u00a0 If he can look at himself in the mirror, that\u2019s his responsibility.\u00a0 I did what I was supposed to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>If he\u2019s down buying a bottle of Mad Dog with that, that\u2019s his deal?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Then, God will judge\u2026that\u2019s his deal.\u00a0 God will judge his heart for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It eliminates the grey.\u00a0 There is no justification in giving.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You\u2019re not trying to do their job and your job.\u00a0 You just take care of your job, you\u2019re saying?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>And, in that passage that you read that there\u2019s no amount given.\u00a0 God doesn\u2019t say\u2026who gives a lot.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>God loves a cheerful giver who gives a lot, right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know, I was with a \u2026a widow of a business man not too long ago up in Northwest Arkansas, and she was talking about her husband and he used to do when he got old enough to receive social security.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, he had done well enough in business.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t need social security.\u00a0 But every month the social security check came he decided he would cash it and put it in his left pocket and throughout each day of the month, he would give away his social security check in pieces to a single mom at a grocery store like you\u2019re talking about, or a woman with a bunch of children needing to fill up her car with gas.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHis widow was beaming telling stories about her husband and how he had been what you\u2019re talking about here, a cheerful giver.\u00a0 I wonder sometimes if our fingers aren\u2019t just a little too tight around this in America because we do tend to view working to get, but you believe we need to be able to get to what?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think we just need to get to where it doesn\u2019t matter on our end.\u00a0 I really think we\u2019re not smart enough to organize our giving.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of like that guy.\u00a0 We really talk about and we invented it so we\u2019re going to market it.\u00a0 We invented the popcorn theory.\u00a0 People go, \u201cWhat do you mean by that?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt sits in the bottom of a pan and all these kernels are just burning.\u00a0 You don\u2019t which one needs because they\u2019re just sitting there.\u00a0 Well, the one that gets the hottest is going to pop up and hit you in the face.\u00a0 That\u2019s the one that needs you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, that\u2019s what that guy did.\u00a0 He walked around with the money and whenever popcorn would hit him in the face, he hit it.\u00a0 If you\u2019re organized and you\u2019re thoughtful and all that kind of stuff to me you\u2019re sometimes kind of worried about the end result.\u00a0 Where ours is, it hits us in the face and then boom, it\u2019s gone, and that way we\u2019re not concerned about the next.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf we\u2019re supposed to give, it\u2019s going to hit us.\u00a0 And you got to look in the pan of popcorn, though.\u00a0 If you\u2019re looking away it\u2019s going to keep popping all you want and you\u2019ll miss every one of them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, and that\u2019s what you do.\u00a0 Your spiritual antenna is up.\u00a0 You have a radar on as you guys get up during the day that you\u2019re scanning, looking for opportunities to give, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, we do.\u00a0 I\u2019m a little bit organized with the kids as far as giving because I think it\u2019s very important that they realize the value of it.\u00a0 Every month we will say, \u201cOkay, here\u2019s the amount that you can give this month.\u00a0 You need to keep your eyes open and you need to look around for an opportunity for this to be used someplace that you deem in your heart is important and special and the need is there.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s been very interesting.\u00a0 Sean Jr. will come home and say, \u201cI have so-and-so at my school that\u2019s doing three jobs, Mom.\u00a0 Oh my gosh, they\u2019re doing this and that and they\u2019re only sleeping two hours a day,\u201d and then Collins will come in and say, \u201cOne of the girls is getting ready to run track and she\u2019s running the 440 in basketball high-top tennis shoes.\u201d\u00a0 Or Michael would say\u2026 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we have made them aware that you need to pick.\u00a0 They will give to what the special need is and that\u2019s where they use their money.\u00a0 And with their movie money we were very insistent that it was not a large amount of money, but that a percentage of what they got was going to be given to a certain spot and we wanted them to kind of track it and watch the results of it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI do believe you need to instill this in your children.\u00a0 You need to have a goal for them to reach and for them in their soul and their heart to learn to be cheerful givers.\u00a0 You teach them everything else and you need to teach them to be givers.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tKids are immensely intelligent.\u00a0 I\u2019m amazed at how much young kids know so you can instill in your children to be givers just like you can instill in them that they can\u2019t steal, that they can\u2019t lie.\u00a0 We do believe that you need to do that with your kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You two actually orchestrated events to make your children aware that there were those that\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2026had less or didn\u2019t have much at all.\u00a0 You tell a story about bridge building, about a counselor who set up a situation.\u00a0 I found out that to be very interesting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It\u2019s a great organization.\u00a0 Sean Jr.\u2019s just gotten old enough to participate in it this summer.\u00a0 You start before your junior year in high school.\u00a0 It\u2019s a group here in Memphis called Bridges started by the Wilson family.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a great organization.\u00a0 They bring in kids\u2026well you explain to them what they do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>What they do is they bridge the gap between social and economical differences.\u00a0 They force it and it is very organized.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great deal.\u00a0 It brings everybody down to the common level, and then all of a sudden you\u2019re looking around, and you\u2019re really not any different.\u00a0 You\u2019re not in a situation where you can\u2019t do something good.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care how bad you are this puts everybody in the exact same level, no matter where you\u2019re from.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great organization.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And that organization actually put a bunch of young people in the same room and they turn the lights off\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And then actually ask them several questions?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It was a separating-type process.\u00a0 Who\u2019s going to get a car when they\u2019re 16, you take one step to the right; if you\u2019re not, take one step to the left.\u00a0 Who\u2019s got a mom and dad take one step to the right, you know, if you don\u2019t, take one step to the left.\u00a0 And then, they asked all these very, very simple questions.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf they were simple to one side, to the other side they were very impactful.\u00a0 Then they would turn the lights on and our daughter was in the process.\u00a0 She looked and there were people way on the other end of her.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t even realize that the common things that she woke up to every day were separating things.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Do you sleep in a bed by yourself?\u00a0 Take one step to the right.\u00a0 I mean, some of them got that organic, just very basic.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It makes you realize\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>If you had more than one bathroom in your house, kind of things, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Exactly they were those kinds of questions.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You mentioned earlier about the person in Northwest Arkansas.\u00a0 This is a country that\u2019s made up of people like that.\u00a0 Sometimes we\u2019re preaching to the choir but sometimes it doesn\u2019t hurt if you\u2019re in the choir sometimes to get preached to.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s what thought the movie did.\u00a0 We really believe and this may be really crazy and na\u00efve but if you sat there and watched the movie something was going to happen.\u00a0 You either looked up there and said, \u201cThat\u2019s me.\u00a0 Boy, am I glad to see myself up there.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty happy with myself.\u201d\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing wrong with being happy with yourself.\u00a0 Or you sat there and identified with the school teachers or the coaches or something like that to people who were giving.\u00a0 Or it bothered you but you left differently than you came in. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor a movie to do that in this day and age, no one got shot, no one got chased, and no one got blown up. It\u2019s got to really shake the movie people of the world.\u00a0 The margin of what this costs and what this is going to bring in has to be one of the greatest margins ever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They can\u2019t figure it out.\u00a0 Hollywood cannot figure it out.\u00a0 It\u2019s so funny.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No, and that is all it is.\u00a0 If they would just sit and realize that it was America who\u2019s made up of great people looking at themselves up there going, \u201cOkay, alright.\u00a0 I like that.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to keep doing that.\u201d or, \u201cMan, I think I can do that.\u00a0 That isn\u2019t that hard.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s all it is and we need to turn the lights off in our country sometimes to realize how good we\u2019re doing.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing wrong with patting ourselves on the back.\u00a0 But sometimes the choir needs to get preached to, and maybe that\u2019s what that movie did a little bit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Talk a little bit because I know this is something that as focused as you are on trying to be givers and encourage others to be givers, you do see a distinction between giving and enabling, and that\u2019s something that we got to be aware of, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh yes, because we get obviously squirrely mail daily\u2026the guy that wants you to send him $300 because he just didn\u2019t have the money to take his family on a cruise this year.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 I mean, we do not have \u201cstupid\u201d written across our foreheads.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, you definitely have to discern between those that are just\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>But it\u2019s amazing sometimes the ones that hit you.\u00a0 There was an organization here in town we\u2019ve never heard of and we try to read everything.\u00a0 If somebody goes to the time to get it to us, they deserve\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Eventually we\u2019ll get it read.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong>\u00a0 It ended up being one of the best organizations we hadn\u2019t even heard of.\u00a0 It\u2019s a crazy country out there.\u00a0 Leigh Anne travels all over the world almost.\u00a0 I call her a rock star.\u00a0 And people all over the country are doing some incredible things.\u00a0 You have no idea and for us it\u2019s been a blessing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was in Seattle and they were doing some stuff that people in Miami have never heard of.\u00a0 But then you go to Miami and they\u2019re kind of doing the same thing, but they don\u2019t know each other.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s amazing the country that we put together that we beat ourselves up over, I mean you turn the news on and we\u2019re a horrible place.\u00a0 Well turn the channel maybe because there are some people doing some good stuff, and we\u2019re just kind of part of it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe were fortunate or unfortunate to have our names plastered on it.\u00a0 It depends upon what side of the ledge that you\u2019re looking over or what day it is.\u00a0 But you could have put a lot of folks on that screen, and that\u2019s what I think was so good about that movie.\u00a0 It really didn\u2019t exclude us from everybody it included us with a lot of folks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Sean, I couldn\u2019t agree with you more.\u00a0 In fact, as Bob and I were coming in here to do the interview today, I told him \u201cI think there are tons of men and women, singles, marrieds, and families around the nation that are doing heroic things for other human beings.\u00a0 They\u2019re not making movies about them.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 They found your story.\u00a0 They found yours and it\u2019s around the age-old theme of redemption, how you redeem something that is lost.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The interesting thing to us is that <em>The Blind Side <\/em>was written by a nonbeliever and he is so perplexed to how it\u2019s gotten to this.\u00a0 I said, \u201cDude, you just held the pen.\u00a0 You did not write this and one day you will realize that.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, he tapped in to the story of human history.\u00a0 The God of the universe is all about redemption.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It\u2019s why he wants us to be involved with the orphan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He wants us to tap into what His heart\u2019s all about, which if He didn\u2019t adopt us, we\u2019d be in serious trouble!\u00a0 But He gave the ultimate gift.\u00a0 I just want to thank you both for being cheerful givers, I\u2019m sure not all the time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No, unfortunately. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>But for being obedient and I\u2019m sure it\u2019s been more than once, but in this case, for being obedient to pick up that young man off the side of the road and take a step of faith.\u00a0 I look back over my life and I think, \u201cYou know, it\u2019s so easy to be afraid and to step back and to live in fear, and to not step out and obey God and to do the hard thing.\u00a0 To risk in a step of faith.\u201d\u00a0 You guys have done that and I applaud you.\u00a0 I hope, as I know you do, that this spawns a jillion movies in Hollywood.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, there\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2026of wholesome stories of redemption of human beings who cared enough to reach out to a person in need and who made a difference.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>There are some things happening, aren\u2019t there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>There are some things happening.\u00a0 I\u2019ve even gotten a couple things from producers to want to work on scripts with them, and these are guys that have done big projects. I just find it so interesting.\u00a0 Do they think just because one of us would do it, it\u2019ll be the next <em>Blind Side<\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0 Who knows, but the opportunity is there to do more of this that will make people aware of the needs than the so-be-its.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe challenge I guess today is we know everybody can\u2019t go out and adopt a 6\u20196\u201d, 350 pound black kid.\u00a0 But you can do something.\u00a0 You can do something. If you start little, the rewards that you\u2019ll receive will\u2026it will snowball.\u00a0 It will snowball into something greater.\u00a0 I promise you it will. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I like what you say in your book.\u00a0 You don\u2019t necessarily have to do something big but you ought to do something.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Just do something and do it well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And as you\u2019ve tried to practice that over the years, you\u2019ve seen God honor that over and over again.\u00a0 In fact, I want to encourage our listeners to go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got a bonus audio feature online where we just ask you to share some of your favorite stories of giving and how you\u2019ve seen God bless those efforts as you\u2019ve tried to be faithful givers.\u00a0 So go to FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 There\u2019s the audio feature there and we\u2019ve got a video clip there as well where we talked a little bit about the movie and the Oscars.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we\u2019ve got a handful of our listeners who already practice what you guys preach.\u00a0 They are cheerful givers and we know that because from time to time, they will contact us and make a donation to help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 I want to say thanks to those of you who do help support the ministry.\u00a0 Your donations make it possible for us to be on this station every day and we appreciate your financial support.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis month, if you\u2019re able to make a donation of any amount to support <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, we would love to send you a thank you gift and the gift we\u2019ll send you is Sean and Leigh Anne\u2019s new book called <em>In a Heartbeat:<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em><em>Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving<\/em>.\u00a0 So when you go online or call and make a donation of any amount this month, you can ask for a copy of that book.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re donating online at FamilyLifeToday.com and you\u2019d like a copy of the book, type the word \u2018HEARTBEAT\u2019 into the key code box that you\u2019ll find on the online donation form, or call 1-800-FL-TODAY.\u00a0 Make a donation by phone and just ask for a copy of Sean and Leigh Anne\u2019s new book, and again, we\u2019re happy to send it out to you, and we do appreciate your support of the ministry.\u00a0 Thanks for whatever you\u2019re able to do financially to partner in keeping us on the air.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI hope you have a great weekend.\u00a0 I hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend and I hope you can join us on Monday when David Delk\u2019s going to be here.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to talk about a very simple prayer that a couple can pray for their marriage that we believe God can use in a powerful and profound way.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about it Monday.\u00a0 I hope you can be back with us for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today Keith Lynch and our entire broadcast production team on behalf of our host Dennis Rainey I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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