A New Series Exploring Relationships in Work, Life, and Home
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Relationships are messy. We all carry with us stories of pain, loss, and joy in relationships with others.
These stories have trained us to walk carefully.
Guarded.
Calculated.
And we don’t need any convincing that relationships are hard.
Yet God has created us to be relational people.
So if relationships are so important to God, we have questions that we want to be answered:
Why are relationships so difficult and broken?
Who or what causes relationships to be messy?
What causes relationships to be life-giving?
How do we see all of our relationships become healthy in God and robust in love?
In Genesis 2:18, God said to Adam, “It is not good that you are alone.” The creation of relationships was God’s idea. God Himself is a beautiful and mysterious dance of relationship: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
In a new sermon series – a series that will find its anchor in a letter written by St. Paul to a young mission church in Ephesus, which found itself with some relational messiness - we will answer these questions we all wrestle with and find divine direction.
Paul’s desire is that this young, messy church would see their relationships with God and one another become healthy and lovely. This is exactly what we all want: relationships that move from messy to healthy in God, and from self-interested to robust in love.
We will have other teachers join us as we discover the beauty of what Paul is wanting the mission church at Ephesus– and Living Fellowship Church– to see about our relationship with God and one another. These are pastors who all have unique ministry experiences, and who I know will love us well as they draw our attention to the One who loves well.
Each sermon in the series will be accompanied by a short blog post highlighting a specific way in which we can continue the conversation together.
We will also have our second “How to Love Your Neighbor Round Table” during this series. This will be led by Caleb Martin, a local pastoral counselor, who will talk with us about how to pursue the hearts of those in our relational circles.
