Creating a Secure CHURCH
PART 2 : Secure in Relationships
Chapter 5 : Togetherness & Unity
5.4 And So?
So, let’s ask ourselves some very practical questions based on the things we’ve observed above:
What is my personal feeling about ‘people’ in church?
• I could do without them
• I couldn’t live without them
• I see them as people to love and bless
• I see them as God’s means of changing me
How can I approach and build relationships with others who
• I feel awkward about?
• Feel awkward about me?
What changes does Jesus want to bring about in me in respect of the way I view other people?
What things can I DO to bless other people and help them feel loved and accepted?
Again, these are nuts and bolts questions for relationships within the church. We may have thought we were being spiritual when we’ve been focusing on all the other “big issues” of the church, but if we have failed to face and work through these questions, we have be less than the people God wants us to be!
These are not easy things to honestly work through. Time and again we’ll be tempted to give up working on relationships. Time and time again we’ll have to go back to God for grace, but somehow we MUST do it.
