Everyone is born to have both a horizontal and a vertical relationship. The horizontal relationship is with other people. The vertical relationship is with God.
Discussion Questions:
Q1. Who has been the most important relationship in your life?
Q2. Why are relationships so important?
Q3. What should be the most important relationship, according to the following verses:
36 "Teacher," he asked, "which is the most important commandment in the Law?" 37 Jesus replied, " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Love him with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and most important commandment. 39 And the second is like it. 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.' (Matthew 22:36-39)
Q4. Why must your our relationship with God be #1?
Read the following verses:
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born again because of what God has done. That person knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 How did God show his love for us? He sent his one and only Son into the world. He sent him so we could receive life through him. 10 What is love? It is not that we loved God. It is that he loved us and sent his Son to give his life to pay for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we should also love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God lives in us. His love is made complete in us. 19 We love because he loved us first. 20 Anyone who says he loves God but in fact hates his brother or sister is a liar. He doesn't love his brother or sister, whom he has seen. So he can't love God, whom he has not seen. 21 Here is the command God has given us. Anyone who loves God must also love his brothers and sisters. (1 John 4:7-12, 19-21)
Q5. What do these verses mean to you?
Friday, June 26, 2009
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