You Can THRIVE Relationally Series – THRIVE – Part 5 Pastor Chuck Bernal – 01-25-15 All of us yearn for close relationships, relationships where we can be completely honest, totally open and fearlessly vulnerable. We want relationships where we can share our successes and our failures, our strengths and our shortcomings. We want to be connected to others in a way that frees us to reveal our doubts and our fears. We want to feel close enough to another person to be who we really are and find empathy and confidentiality. And the truth of the matter is this: These intimate, authentic relationships are exactly what God had in mind for us when He created us. He created us for relationships and He wants us to experience them at their best. All of us long for such relationships, but how often do we really experience them? Occasionally? Once in a lifetime? Never? (Bill Hybels)
THRIVING RELATIONSHIPS: WHY ARE THEY SO IMPORTANT? It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him. (Genesis 2:18)
Everyone has a "built-in" need for _____________________________________ Loneliness, isolation or conflict is never God’s _________________ for us! Thriving relationships NEVER just happen they require ________ _________ When we have thriving relationships, it ______________________________ us THEREFORE: We really do _________________________________ each other THRIVING RELATIONSHIPS: HOW DO THEY HAPPEN FOR US? 1. Relationships thrive when we make others a _______________! Two people are better than one, because they get more done by working together. If one falls down, the other can help him up. But it is bad for the person who is alone and falls, because no one is there to help. If two lie down together, they will be warm, but a person alone will not be warm. An enemy might defeat one person, but two people together can defend themselves; a rope that is woven of three strings is hard to break. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 – CEV)