Relational Repair (4 of 4)
Series: Make Us One
Jeff Ecklund
Genesis 32:6-7
recap:
We talked last week about offenses and being offended...
Steven Furtick quote ''offense is the event, offended is the decision''
Someone asked me a great question after the message...
Can you be disappointed with someone and not be offended?
I think yes...the challenge is what you do with the disappointment...Do you hang onto it? Do you cultivate it into offense?
Do you really have an offense and ''disappointment'' is the relabel so you don't have to biblically deal with it?
We finished up with being a grave-digger...that you mentally dig a grave to drop offenses into before you get offended...That God dropped the charges against us as Jesus went to the grave....we need to drop the charges and release people and ourselves from the captivity of offense...
Not every offense can be reconciled, but it can be released...
This morning I want to talk about relational repair...
I don't know of a single person who has walked through life without bridges being burned, blown up or at least seriously compromised....
From childhood friendships, to family or neighbors, conflict comes, and rebuilding is needed...
First of all, be reminded that relationships are a biblical core value...
Genesis 2:18 (ESV)
18Then the Lord God said, ''It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.''
You and I were created to function best in community, in brotherhood...
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (ESV)
9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
10For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
11Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?
12And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him-a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Here is the wisest man in t ...
Series: Make Us One
Jeff Ecklund
Genesis 32:6-7
recap:
We talked last week about offenses and being offended...
Steven Furtick quote ''offense is the event, offended is the decision''
Someone asked me a great question after the message...
Can you be disappointed with someone and not be offended?
I think yes...the challenge is what you do with the disappointment...Do you hang onto it? Do you cultivate it into offense?
Do you really have an offense and ''disappointment'' is the relabel so you don't have to biblically deal with it?
We finished up with being a grave-digger...that you mentally dig a grave to drop offenses into before you get offended...That God dropped the charges against us as Jesus went to the grave....we need to drop the charges and release people and ourselves from the captivity of offense...
Not every offense can be reconciled, but it can be released...
This morning I want to talk about relational repair...
I don't know of a single person who has walked through life without bridges being burned, blown up or at least seriously compromised....
From childhood friendships, to family or neighbors, conflict comes, and rebuilding is needed...
First of all, be reminded that relationships are a biblical core value...
Genesis 2:18 (ESV)
18Then the Lord God said, ''It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.''
You and I were created to function best in community, in brotherhood...
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (ESV)
9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
10For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
11Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?
12And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him-a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Here is the wisest man in t ...
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