Relationships – Part III

Opening Question: What’s the most important relationship in your life?

Q 2. What are the ingredients that go into a good relationship with someone?

Discuss what the following verses from the Bible say about a relationship with God:

John 4:23,24
True worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. They are the kind of worshipers the Father is looking for. God is spirit. His worshipers must worship him in spirit and in truth.

John 3:3
Jesus replied, "What I'm about to tell you is true. No one can see God's kingdom without being born again."

John 17:3
And what is eternal life? It is knowing you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Romans 8:38,39
I am absolutely sure that not even death or life can separate us from God's love. Not even angels or demons, the present or the future, or any powers can do that. Not even the highest places or the lowest, or anything else in all creation can do that. Nothing at all can ever separate us from God's love because of what Christ Jesus our Lord has done.

Hebrews 13:5
God has said, "I will never leave you. I will never desert you."

Q 3. How is it possible to have a relationship with God in this material world?
Q 4. What keeps people from having a relationship with God?
Q 5. How does someone start a relationship with God?