It’s All About Relationships

The Ten Commandments1. You shall have no other gods before

me.2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image.3. You shall not take the name of the LORD

your God in vain.4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it

holy.5. Honor your father and your mother.6. You shall not murder.

7. You shall not commit adultery.

8. You shall not steal.

9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.10. You shall not covet.

The Greatest Commandments

Mat 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, • Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. • And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Christian Living

Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Christian Living (Cont.)

Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Christian Living (Cont.)

Rom 12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; 13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.

Christian Living (Cont.)

Rom 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.

Christian Living (Cont.)

Rom 12:17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. 20 Therefore

"If your enemy is hungry, feed him;If he is thirsty, give him a drink;For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head."

21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Definition of Sin: Selfishness

1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Definition of Sin: Selfishness (cont.)Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Definition of Sin: Selfishness (cont.)Gal 5:22 But fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

It’s Really About Others!

• It’s About God

• It’s About Our Neighbor

It’s Really About Others! (cont.)

• It’s About God

1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

It’s Really About Others! (cont.)

• It’s About God

Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

It’s Really About Others! (cont.)• It’s About Our

NeighborPhil 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, …

It’s Really About Others! (cont.)

Summary: It’s about our relationship with God and our relationship with our neighbor

The Schedule

Monday Night - Introduction

• It’s all about relationships - Ed Anderson• It’s not about us, it is all about others - Don Avaritt

The Schedule (Cont.)

Tuesday Morning – Relationships between us and God /Christ / Holy Spirit• Submission to God in everything – Chad Prince• What does it mean to Worship God and to walk with Jesus? – Evin Yarbrough• What is Intimacy with God / Intimacy in Prayer / Showing our love for God

– Harry Cobb• The Spirit within us – Walen Mickey

The Schedule (Cont.)Wednesday Morning – Relationships in the

Physical Family• Building Excellence in the Husband Wife relationship - Terry Darnell• Strategies for keeping Divorce far from us

- Carley Connor

• Raising Godly children thru love, example, and discipline

- Aulvie Yarbrough• Honoring your father and mother throughout your life - Scott Conner

The Schedule (Cont.)Thursday Morning – Relationships in the Church

Family• Edification of each other and lifting each other up - Dwight Thomas• Preferring one another through Agape Love

- Brad Prince• Church discipline, self confrontation, and confronting the sin in others - Keith Moore• Intercession for the Church Family to promote deeper and stronger fellowship

- Chad Cogburn

The Schedule (Cont.)Friday Morning – Relationships with

Outsiders• How to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world - Steve Brown• Personalizing the great commission and loving the lost like Jesus loved the lost

- Jim Pritchard• Doing good to all men - Audie Click

• Wrap up and announcements - Duane Cogburn