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The Most Important Place on Earth
“Imagine what could happen—what a difference could be made in our world—if Christian homes were to be miniature outposts of the kingdom of God on earth.” “Imagine,” Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth continues, “if our families would adorn the gospel of Christ and His Word, making it believable.” 1
Nancy included this challenge in the foreword to Robert Wolgemuth’s book The Most Important Place on Earth. In the pages that followed, Robert unpacked what it looks like for the gospel to be lived out within the walls of a home. “A Christian home,” Robert wrote, “is a place where the door is open to guests.” 2
Looking back on his parents’ household, he remembered,
Our mother fed more guests than some of the diners in our town. She scoured the newspaper for new recipes she could make on a budget. Occasionally, she had to let her …
“Imagine what could happen—what a difference could be made in our world—if Christian homes were to be miniature outposts of the kingdom of God on earth.” “Imagine,” Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth continues, “if our families would adorn the gospel of Christ and His Word, making it believable.” 1
Nancy included this challenge in the foreword to Robert Wolgemuth’s book The Most Important Place on Earth. In the pages that followed, Robert unpacked what it looks like for the gospel to be lived out within the walls of a home. “A Christian home,” Robert wrote, “is a place where the door is open to guests.” 2
Looking back on his parents’ household, he remembered,
Our mother fed more guests than some of the diners in our town. She scoured the newspaper for new recipes she could make on a budget. Occasionally, she had to let her family know that there wasn’t enough of a certain entrée, so she’d whisper to one of us, “FHB on the green beans.” We’d quietly pass her message on to our siblings, knowing that meant “Family hold back.” Just take a couple of beans so the guests could have plenty. The important thing was that the abundance of our dinner table made people feel welcome in our home.
Jesus said it best: “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). My dad and mother would have amended this slightly: “It’s more fun to give than to have.” 3
That kind of generosity flows from homes built on the Word of God. As Christians, we have the opportunity to offer something profoundly countercultural: lives rooted in truth, tables marked by grace, and homes that invite others inside to experience the love of Christ made visible in everyday life.
1 Robert Wolgemuth, The Most Important Place on Earth: What a Christian Home Looks Like and How to Build One (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2016), xi.
2 Wolgemuth, The Most Important Place on Earth, 95.
3 Wolgemuth, The Most Important Place on Earth, 95.
