Week 8: Relationships

There were three major themes this week: 1) Our relationship with, and understanding of God and how it translates into our 2) Relationships with other people, healthy relationships all around will ensure 3) Healthy relationships with the opposite gender. It was a great week learning about God's expectations for me in relating with other people and maintaining great relationships. In learning how God expects me to love others, I’m learning how God loves me. He loves me with a sacrificial love, that comes after me when I’m the one who sinned against him, the one who broke the relationship, and the one who, by what is fair, should go to Him first. He laid down everything to have a good relationship with me, he gave up his home, his dignity, his power, his own relationship with the Father, he walked the earth while everyone thought he was a complete lunatic, he gave his body over to be tortured and killed, and then he spent three days in hell. He gave it all up because it was better for me. And he did it all 2,000 years before I even acknowledged Him! Hallelujah!