If there is one thing we can all agree on, it’s probably that maintaining healthy relationships with those around us is tough. It requires a level of selflessness of us that, honestly, we don’t always want to give. And if that isn’t hard enough, God calls us to a much higher standard in our relationships. We are to love those who won’t and don’t love us back. To give to those who seem to only take and take. How is this even possible to maintain? In the last week of our series, we talk about the one relationship that is VITAL to maintain if we want to have good relationships with those around us. That is our relationship with God. If you are struggling to love the unlovely, and to serve those who take, it’s time to take a look inward and refocus your attention on the priority and closeness of your relationship with God.

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MESSAGE NOTES

John 13:34-35

1 John 4:14-16

“The closer we get to God’s love, the better we become at showing it.”

1 John 4:17

1 John 4:18-21

“His love should be the motivation for our love.”

John 21:12-14

John 21:15-16

“How you care for others is the proof of your faith.”

John 21:17

If there is one thing we can all agree on, it’s probably that maintaining healthy relationships with those around us is tough. It requires a level of selflessness of us that, honestly, we don’t always want to give. And if that isn’t hard enough, God calls us to a much higher standard in our relationships. We are to love those who won’t and don’t love us back. To give to those who seem to only take and take. How is this even possible to maintain? In the last week of our series, we talk about the one relationship that is VITAL to maintain if we want to have good relationships with those around us. That is our relationship with God. If you are struggling to love the unlovely, and to serve those who take, it’s time to take a look inward and refocus your attention on the priority and closeness of your relationship with God.