Relationship

“challenge me. I need people to call me out when I am wrong, when I'm not thinking straight. We all need relationships and we are made for relationships. But here's the thing. Just because we know we need them and just because we know that we were made for relationships doesn't mean that we're going to be any good at relationships. All kinds of relationships fail. You know that. You look at your life and and maybe you come here tonight and you have some broken relationships. You have some relationships that are kind of on the”

“So that's very important when it comes to righteousness. is to be in right relationship with someone. And different relationships require different things. To be in right relationship with your wife requires different things than being in right relationship with your children. Being in right relationship with your parents requires something different than being in right relationship with your community or your countrymen.”

“oftentimes our relationships are the things that are most painful in our lives. And so relationships are in trouble. And because of that, our fourth and final truth is that relationships require wisdom. Relationships require wisdom. They don't just happen. If you put a relationship on autopilot, it will most definitely nosedive and crash. Our relationships, they need to be established on the right things.”

“For others of us, those things are relational. We're looking at relationships in our life. And life is so much about, the quality of life is so much about relationships. And some of us know that we need to cultivate some new relationships. For some of you, you need to let this relationship, the relationship with people in the community of faith, the people of God of church, become a new relationship for you. Some of us have some financial decisions that we need to make and never negate the need to carefully and prayerfully”

“you know that you are a part of this difficulty because we struggle with relationships but our relationships are in trouble third fact that I want to say at the foundational uh conversation here today not only that relationships are not optional and relationships are in trouble but relationships help to make life meaningful what really adds to the value of life”

“We can't afford to just show up service to service. We can't afford to just keep our relationships at arm's length. Hey, how you doing? And we keep on going. That's what you do at a country club, not God's church. God's church is designed to be deep-seated relationships, relationships where we can be vulnerable and accountable, relationships in which we bear the burdens of our brothers and sisters. Let me ask you something. Do you have that kind of relationship”

“about how husbands are to honor their wives and how wives are to honor their children and how children are to honor their parents. And there's this position in the home of an honorable relationship. You continue all through the New Testament not only to see repeated the idea of these relationships being made right, but there's that relationship, that new relationship that we share in the church of God. Christian community is intended to build life-giving relationships.”

“of God in him. This is what it means to be a Christian. It all has to do with our coming into a right relationship with God and then recognizing that that relationship with God changes our relationship to everything else in the world. John MacArthur said it so very well when he said this. The glorious good news of the gospel is that the sin-devastated relationship between lost sinners and the holy God can be restored.”