Pretty well anything of lasting value in this life comes down to relationships at some point. 

Did you know you were designed for good, meaningful and lasting relationships by God? In fact, relationships were created by God and existed in the Godhead before anything began.

The Father, Son and Spirit are involved in an ongoing relationship of immense love, respect and cooperation for our benefit. What the Godhead possesses is shared with us. We are invited into the most fulfilling and eternal relationship with God, through Christ.

It is this right relationship with God that clears the way for every other relationship to succeed. If we love God, we will want to do all we can to deepen our relationship with him through worship, honour & respect for his desires. ‘We love because he first loved us’ (1 John 4:19). While it is hard to ‘try to please God’, it is completely possible to please Him and live in freedom, rest and trust as a result. If our ‘vertical’ relationship with God is right, our ‘horizontal’ relationships with others will fall into place.

The scriptures teach into relationships between husbands & wives, parents & children, employers & employees and between citizens and government. The NT is full of helpful advice on how to treat ‘one another’ or ‘each other’.

If you take a survey in your shopping precinct, your neighbourhood or at work, on what are the greatest problems facing our society today, lack of respect will probably come high on the list. Somewhere along the way we have lost the point and the value of relationships. The good news is that the kind of relationships we dream about can actually happen because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on our behalf. He died to reconcile us to God and to reconcile us to one another. To reconcile is to repair and renew, to renovate and re-establish. Damaged relationships can be revived to the delight of all.

When the Holy Spirit begins to operate in our heart and soul, we will feel the call of God and also be aware of human relationships that are wrong and need to be put right. Repentance is the gateway to restoration, we apologise in order to repair & renew a relationship of value. It could be with your boss, your spouse, your neighbour or your child.

Please join us for this teaching theme of immense value in our relationship-starved world of today.

God bless you,

Rob Pearson, Pastor