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Building
Bridges
Improving The Relationships In Your Life
God designed us
for relationships. He desires to have a relationship with
us and He created us needing relationships with other people.
The problem with relationships is that it's very rare to be
taught about how to build and maintain good relationships
with other people. We are left to do the best we can with
the trial and error method-which means there are going to
be many errors resulting in difficult trials.
Since the I-35W bridge collapse last fall, there has been
a great deal of interest in Minnesota about bridges: how to
build them and how to make sure they are safe. For the next
8 weeks following Easter, we are going to focus on building
solid and healthy relational bridges. Just as God provided
the bridge in the resurrected Christ to span the gap separating
us from Him, we will work together on spanning the gaps that
separate us from one another.
The foundation of our bridge will be constructed from the
answer Jesus gave to the question about which of the commandments
is the most important. Jesus' answer didn't use any of the
10 Commandments (which the interrogator must have expected)
but stressed the priority of relationships when He answered:
"You must love the Lord your God
with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind."
This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally
important: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Matthew 22:37-39 NLT
Life is essentially about relationships. The most important
thing in life is not money, fame, pleasure, success or status.
It's relationships.
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