Oct. 31, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Here in the U.S., I don't think we appreciate this idea that families really are meant to be generational in nature. | |
| And the idea of a family lasting 150 years, that's much more commonplace around the world. | |
| Switzerland, Japan, Italy, and you'll see companies that have been in business for a thousand years. | |
| And why not? | |
| If Hobby Lobby can keep going and maintain its culture, its giving all the people employed, it's good for the country, it's good for our culture as a whole. | |
| So that's the idea. | |
| But you've got to start with what's the family vision, mission, and values. | |
| You don't have to be the Green family. | |
| You don't have to be Hobby Lobby. | |
| We say that every family, if they just would start with defining your five family values, your three to five, their family values, God family people. | |
| We have five. | |
| But you just start with what are the five values. | |
| Sometimes we'll say, what are the five words that describe you? | |
| So if you write down just those values and then you put them down on a piece of paper, put them at your dinner table, put them on the wall of your home and said, let's live by those values, and you talk about them. | |
| If you just did that much, then you'd have a good start on helping your family come together. | |
| The Bible talks about this idea that these things should be on your heart and that you should talk about them when you get up, when you lay down, when you're walking by the way, and publish it on the doorposts of your house. | |
| That's what we do. | |
| And we just say that that's for every family. | |
| So just values if you just did that much. | |
| You can go further and you can have a vision statement and a mission statement. | |
| We give some examples in the book. | |
| The Green family mission statement is to love God intimately and to live extravagant generosity. | |
| And that's a gathering point for the family. | |
| That's why they have the annual family celebration. | |
| So it really is pretty simple. | |
| It's just that we tend to not treat family as an intention as intentional as we do our business or our careers. | |
| And so I think we just need to appreciate this idea that we need to think much longer term here in this country. | |
| One of this chapters is chapter 11, and it's really about the story of the broken legacy because certainly there'd be people who would watch and listen to this podcast and they'd say, wow, I've got a messed up story and how could my story, how can I ever put the toothpaste back in the tube? | |
| And that chapter is really a story of hope because there are so many stories, even in the Bible, Father Abraham. | |
| Well, Abraham kicked out a son, you know, and had all kinds of dysfunction. | |
| And you go through this all throughout the scriptures. | |
| There are these stories that seem to be very broken, and yet God always redeems and restores. | |
| I don't know how or why or when. | |
| Sometimes it might take a generation, but he does. | |
| That's God's theme. | |
| And so we just want to give people hope that it's a good story. | |
| Even if it may not seem that way right now, you have a good story. |
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