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April 9, 2025 · 33 min
Time with Barry & Karen Meguiar talking about businesses as platforms to spread the Gospel and live out faith in the marketplace is always anointed! Recorded live at NRB 2025.
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Ignite Kingdom Talk: Faith in Business 0:01 Welcome. This is Ignite Kingdom Talk. Make the marketplace the miracle place. Recorded live at NRB 20 25. This episode0:13 features Barry and Karen Maguire. Barry and Karen Maguire are a powerhouse couple passionate about faith in business. Barry is the former president of Maguire's Inc, the top car wax brand in America and0:25 host of the long running show, Car Crazy. Together, they lead revival outside the walls, inspiring believers to share Jesus in everyday life, improving that your business can be your pulpit. Ignite0:37 Kingdom Talk streams on abundant TV every Wednesday evening at 7 pm CST. Download the app or visit abundant tv dot com to discover and watch more incredible kingdom focused content. We would love your help0:49 spreading the word and leveraging social media for the kingdom. Let's ignite Christian business leaders all over the world. Like, comment, share, follow, and subscribe.1:00 Ignite Kingdom Talk is made possible through the generous support of our Ignite partner access members. This subscription based community offers Christ centered accountability, encouragement, and growth through small1:10 groups. Are you looking for a network1:27 Hey, guys. Welcome back to Ignite Kingdom Talk. Guys, we are super excited. Our favorite people our favorite people. They they they really are. Last year last year, we had a1:39 chance to Yeah. To do a podcast. Podcast.1:42
1:45 It truly was my favorite podcast. It was.
1:47 And, and and and it's like it's like all the places that you've been, I I I have been behind you. And just with her family being with in the cars
1:59 and and and and you and I you and I were at Barrett Jackson together. And and and and I walked by you, and her brother said, well, that's Barry McGuire. And I go, no.
2:12 And and and and I always remember the story. The first time I I waxed my my dad's car, I I I I if I if I was gonna take it out that night, I had to clean the car. Sure. Well, being in Iowa,
2:24 it's we didn't have a garage. It was outside in the All the sun. In the hot sun.
2:28 Oh, no.
2:28 So I didn't know. So I take Barry McGuire's wax, and I'm waxing the car. It's hot. It's hot.
2:36 And you're doing it in the sun? In the sun.
2:38 In the sun. Oh, man. And I go to I go to buff that off. It's and it just oh, it took me forever. It took me forever. But but, guys and, Karen,
2:50 thank you so much for jumping on with us.
2:52 My pleasure.
2:53 Well, it's it it it it it's fun, and we love both of you guys. I I love very I I just I met you last year, and it it you're you're 1 of those guys
3:05 because we're we're we're Christian business owners, those entrepreneur business leaders, and and I just I I wanna be I wanna be what you are.
3:18 And if I can say as well, crying, even though we don't know each other that well, you're an inspiration to me. You're an example to me
3:25 To me too.
3:26 To what I want to be to the Ignite community. And and and I mean that. It's it's you show you're transparent. You opened up to
3:38 us. And I I just I I kept thinking of all the the business leaders that we have within our our our community. It's just we need Barry Maguires out there
3:50 that say, guys, here's how I did it. Here's where I went wrong. Here's where if I had to do it over, here's what I would have done differently.
3:58 Yeah.
3:58 And I I love you. I I love your heart. I love your wife. And and just you guys always every time we see you, even last year, this year, you've always got a smile on your on
4:10 on on your face. Life's a journey. Yeah.
4:13 You know? It's like somebody said the other day, I liked it.
4:16 It's like climbing a mountain. You get to
4:18 a certain point, you have a better viewpoint, you understand things better, but you still have a mountain to climb and you learn more. And then all of a sudden you get a better view. You know, we keep we keep going up.
4:27 So I mean you guys are just kids. We're old folks.
4:30 I was gonna say it's changed the age.
4:32 We we the advantage of it is that we've had more more time and you just keep learning. Every day it's learning. You learn every day, and
4:40 you grow
4:41 every day. It's amazing how that happens.
4:42 So so, Karen, let me start with you. What's some of the things that we wouldn't necessarily know about you that maybe you've learned through the whole process of of all the business that's
4:54 gone, all the different things, all the different aspects in life. What's some some things that maybe we wouldn't know with you that you've learned throughout the years?
5:03 Well, it's been a really interesting ride with Barry. He is into so many different things. And, you know, he was a soul winner when I met him in college, and it's just grown more
5:15 and more and more. And it's really helped me too. But he was this introvert, if you can believe that.
5:23 I hid behind her.
5:25 He literally Oh, I know.
5:26 Right at business meetings, I I was she'd she'd she's never known her stranger. She just has this gift, you know?
5:33 And then when she formed a little bit of a group, then I kinda I'm I'm her husband. Oh,
5:39 but, you know, he made me work trade shows. So I traveled a lot more when our daughters went to college. But when we first started out, it was just Barry and I in a 10 foot table.
5:51 Oh.
5:52 And Barry was very quiet. It was very quiet. So I would have to go out into the aisle and look for those red badges of the buyers.
6:00 The buyers. You know? Yeah.
6:02 So I would have to get them, talk them to them, and then I would bring them into the booth, and Barry would sell them. So it was a very interesting life, wasn't it?
6:11 Well, fun thing is, at at the SEMA show
6:15 Yeah.
6:16 You know, it was she and me for a lot of years. Yeah. And, she kept working those shows till finally she got to be 60 and she's, can I retire now, you know?
6:28 70. So
6:29 now we go to the booth and there's like 30 people there working for us and
6:34 Oh, wow.
6:34 It's a big operation.
6:36 40 people.
6:37 She goes right in. I don't see her for the rest of the day. I'm talking all day long. I look over, there she is entertaining people, you know. Oh, wow. And I I said to her, you know, you don't have to do this anymore.
6:48 She's been so much fun.
6:50 Well, you get to know. But if you're gonna talk to Karen A
6:53 lot of people. If you're gonna talk to Karen, you're gonna talk to Karen, you're gonna hear about the Lord. That's that's the thing. Just every conversation, make sure every single person, Yeah. Yeah. Understands where
7:02 your joy is coming from. That's right.
7:04 That's right.
7:05 After after the conference, I read your book.
7:08 Oh.
7:08 And I read it so quickly and I am like, this is 1 of the best books. So I highly recommend if you have not read Oh my. Book
7:18 Oh my.
7:18 To read it because it's so much practical
7:22 Yeah. Yes.
7:23 To, you know, in-depth of your story. But the biggest thing I felt like I gleaned from that is if we are not representing Christ everywhere we go. And
7:34 what would he do, you know, in a restaurant, you know? Yeah. It may be as simple as saying God bless you. But if you feel prompted by the spirit, can I pray for you? Or give them a little
7:46 bit extra of a tip. And and because if we really truly become the light
7:52 Yes.
7:53 That all people are gonna be drawn as we lift up Jesus. People are gonna be drawn to him by the words we speak, by the smile on our face, because sometimes Christians look like
8:05 the most sour like they just say to a Sour Patch Kid or something. And it's like, there's no smile, there's no joy of the Lord. And I'm like, holy
8:15 spirit is joy.
8:16 Well, we're all witnesses.
8:18 Yes.
8:19 Some are witnesses for the prosecution.
8:21 No. That's actually
8:23 what we did.
8:24 I can tell you after
8:25 sharing faith for 50 years. I would say that most people who are not Christians are not Christians because of Christians.
8:35 I would agree. Yes. Wow. Wow. Like who wants that?
8:38 Because No. Everything we say and do is moving people watching us closer or further away from God. It's a continual dynamic. No matter where you go, you can't get away from it. You can't get away from it.
8:50 Everything you say and do is moving people closer and further away. So once you realize that, you start figuring out I need to move them closer not further away and so you you wanna get them into
9:02 heaven. That's why he said, you know, love me and love your neighbor as yourself. That's all you need to do. Nothing else I have required, nothing more of you. But if you love them as yourself, you're as concerned for
9:13 their salvation as you are your own. So then I have personal responsibility for everybody around me. Mhmm. I I want I I wanna get their salvation, so that means
9:23 I I need to be a little more buttoned up in honoring God and
9:28 and and not not lax.
9:30 Thank you.
9:30 And so that's in language, that's indulgences, that's what you laugh at. Everything you do, you can insinuate your your support stuff that that's not godly, that and it's not leading them to Jesus.
9:41 That's right.
9:42 So you start doing everything right, not out of obligation, not out of legalism, which is out of pure joy. I mean, you just wanna get people to come on board, you know?
9:51 Yeah. And this, you know, the scripture,
10:04 body of Christ that we are compassionless. And when we see a brother or a sister in the Lord, you know, stumble or something come against them, a
10:15 pastor or whoever, you know, it's like we're so quick to just be, like, past judgment and, oh, I I hope they lose their church or I hope this happens or
10:24 I hope
10:25 and it's like God forbid that we instead we just talked about it how Jesus said to Peter, do you love me? If you love me, if you love me, if you love me, And
10:36 wouldn't it be so wonderful if we as the body of Christ began to say, you know, we speak life into you. There's better days yet to come. Yes. There's consequences for sure, but God
10:48 is the 1 that can issue those out. Yeah. And that we would stand with our brothers and love 1 another. And, you know
10:56 Good stuff. Good stuff.
10:57 It's just start kicking each other.
10:59 And love those even those that are not in the family. Yes. Yeah. But we're we're very big at fighting all these issues now, pornography or trafficking or whatever. But you hear the
11:10 vitriol these days, it's it's bothersome because it's there's an anger there. You need to stop them. But the people on the other side of those issues are not evil. They're lost.
11:21 They're lost.
11:22 Yeah. Karen reminded me the other day that God loves the people that we hate. Yeah. Yeah. There's no room for hate. Yeah.
11:29 And so you need to love on it.
11:31 And and even Yeah. As much as you need to for me at sport to love the ones that are unlovable. Mhmm. You know, if they don't look like me Yeah. And they look fierce or whatever, I go to them. They may have green hair,
11:42 piercings, or whatever. And they don't know what to do with me.
11:46 She she I'm
11:47 loving on them. You know? It's like it takes them back and, you know, it's just She helps
11:52 me with that. She helps me with that a lot, especially in the world of politics.
11:56 Yeah.
11:56 I I get frustrated at all.
11:58 I don't know if you're gonna be selfish. I mean, I think some gods give it over. I could name 2 or 3, but I won't get into that. Yes. That's nothing for me to judge. But the fact of the matter, most of them, they're just
12:08 lost. Yeah. And they're lashing out. They got anger. They get the blood vessels and everything and they're Yeah. Ridiculous stuff. How could they believe that? They're lost. Yeah. They've excused
12:20 their loss.
12:21 You know, and and and he says he says to pray for our enemies. Yeah. You know, if you have hatred,
12:27 how can you pray?
12:28 You can't pray. You know? So so he's he's always or I she is always helping me to remember that as well. Very 1 of the things I wanted to ask you, when
12:40 in your life did it did that switch happen where leading others to Christ was more important in the business? Good question.
12:50 Oh, well, I I told you this story last year. We were searching for joy. We were doing everything right, but we were searching for joy. We didn't have it.
12:57 And we're giving faith
12:58 to labor, sacrificing and doing all kinds of things with 2 little girls, and we didn't have joy. And and and God loves us without going. I don't wanna take the time for
13:07 it right now, but we got
13:08 we met a guy that was just so full of joy, and he was a very important person, but he was just full of joy. Why? That's all
13:17 he told us to do. He's leading to the Lord. Mhmm.
13:20 I was in the store into this and this and and he just we walked away saying, we we want that. Yeah. So we started doing it to the point that we thought we were supposed to go to full time ministry.
13:31 And and I prayed 1 day in
13:33 my office, god, I think you want me to go to full time ministry, but I I I would do it. I'll leave the I'll leave the family business a moment, but you're gonna almost have to speak to me in an audible voice.
13:46 And not 20 minutes later, he sends this guy into our office, you know. You may remember the story that that he listened for a little bit, he says, your your business is your pulpit. So then at that point I realized
13:57 I wasn't in the shine business to shine cars, I was in the shine business to shine for for Jesus. That was 19 76. Wow. Yeah. So And we've been doing that. That's been
14:09 the light of our life. The drive forward, I wake up in the morning. Always We always have a lot of important things to do, but the only thing that's important is in every 1 of those, I don't care if you're in the board
14:20 meeting or you're you're making a sale or you're in the tennis court or in a waiting room or wherever you're at. We're surrounded by people almost always that are lost Yeah. With great pain most of the time.
14:31 Yeah. Yeah.
14:32 And when you just love on them, he said, if they'll know you're by the side, well, you love, well, you just love on them. You guys know that, then you do that. I've heard your stories. When you love on them, it's the
14:41 holy spirit loving on them. And they will open up within 5 minutes and tell you their deepest needs. And then the Holy Spirit speaks through you. We don't have we can't prepare for those conversations. It's spontaneous.
14:53 Yeah. But we don't have to. Mark 13 11 says don't prepare. And Luke 12 12 says, I'll give you the words that say, when you're in that dynamic where God is speaking through you, you know it. He's giving you scriptures you
15:05 haven't thought of for years, and now you're quoting them verbatim. And you know at that moment, it's intimacy with God. He's speaking through you. Woo.
15:13 Yeah. I tell
15:14 you what. That's Wow. That's that's okay.
15:16 Let me give you 1 of the examples that that he does at home. The housekeepers come on Tuesday, Christian music and Spanish.
15:26 There you go.
15:28 The landscapers are there on Wednesday.
15:30 Anything we can Christian music.
15:31 We we pulled to the ballet.
15:33 Just treating and so wonderful. You know, they're such wonderful people. Well, yeah.
15:37 Yeah. And so We pulled up to the ballet with our car. We might be listening to country music or whatever, but before I pulled the ballet, I stop. I push it over to Enlighten. Yeah. It's on the, you know, series
15:49 radio.
15:49 There's a lot of little things
15:51 you can do.
15:52 They often know who we are.
15:53 Yeah. Bibles
15:54 and all that. When they go park the car,
15:56 if nothing else, we let them know, oh, they're Christians. Yeah. You just do everything you can with the sense of that. You do everything you can Yeah. To bring awareness to the Lord.
16:05 Oh, that's good.
16:06 Well, you know That
16:07 is good.
16:08 You know, in the bible where Saul becomes Paul Yes. And he's blind, you know, the scales are on his eyes, And he speaks you know, the Lord speaks to Ananias
16:20 to go there.
16:21 Wow.
16:21 Can you imagine?
16:22 And you think this guy's killing Christians. He's purse arresting Christians. And you're wanting me to go to this, you know, to this man who just says he's, you know, he's
16:34 found the Lord. He has an understanding.
16:36 You can stab me right now.
16:37 Absolutely. But out of obedience and honor to the Lord, he goes. And to think we so often don't wanna go and and be around
16:49 those that you look at even woke people. And what if 1 of those people had such an encounter with the lord and
17:01 we were told you need to go. He once was blind, but now he sees. And so when you go and you begin to release and impart because Ananias had
17:12 something to impart into Saul who became Paul, who wrote so much of the New Testament. And I and I look and I think of those people that have are killing Christians,
17:25 you know, murdering them, and you think, Lord, give them a divine encounter with you because that's not who they were created to be. And and then you think if 1 of those little
17:37 boys, instead of being held you know, told to hold a gun at 2, 3 years old and told to hate, that's all they've known. But instead, had they come into a Christian family and
17:49 were raised in your family, our family, so many others, that they would have turned out to be men and women of God. Yeah. And so, Lord, would you encounter those people?
17:59 Yeah. It's so true. We need to love on people, which is God's work. Yes. Yes. And the the the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is
18:11 apathy. We just don't care.
18:14 We don't have time.
18:15 We're surrounded by human lives. We don't care. We're doing our own thing. We don't even care. God help us. Yeah. You know?
18:21 Yeah.
18:22 There's nothing more important than and we're here. Look at we got this opportunity. We can do it and and we blow God off. We can't we can't do that. But what we don't know is we don't most Christians don't realize that
18:33 they sharing their faith is hard. It's it's they they might be persecuted, you know, scratchy throat and they get they get all these visions of what sharing faith is, but it's just
18:46 a blast. Yeah. You know?
18:48 But they're
18:48 It's so much fun.
18:49 And I think when we love the Lord so much that if he says you have a word for that person
18:57 Yeah.
18:57 Release it or just pray or just bless them in the name in his name. And to be faithful in the little things, you don't have to get up on a table and preach. You just need to just
19:09 exude the love of Christ and in so doing, you're representing him on earth.
19:14 Yeah. You
19:15 know, there's I I
19:16 I said earlier, but there's I there's a verse in Isaiah 43 10. When he says why, from Genesis to Revelations, he says go and share your faith, proclaim the good news. But Isaiah 43 10, he
19:28 says, so that you would know. I appoint you as my witness so that you would know that I am God. That's where absolute faith comes from because when you have the Holy Spirit speaking through you, you know he's real.
19:40 Nothing will ever take that away from you. You're you're in the center of it. And then Romans 8 28 says, when you live for my purpose, his purpose is to seek and save the lost. Lost. I'll make everything in your life
19:50 work for good. That that's the end of fear. I've been more worries because even the bad stuff, we've had a lot of bad stuff, but God's been there in the middle Yeah. Of all the bad We lost a daughter at 49 years of
20:02 age. You know, I was dying in a hospital. I was losing my business. I was moments away from a joint venture partner stealing my business away from me. I mean, we've been there. It kept joy
20:14 right on through. Why? Yeah. I never believed you would die. To God Yeah.
20:18 That was that was interesting. I never believed you would die when you were in the hospital.
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