Relationships Matter - Week One

Relationships are complicated. Relationships get messy. Relationships can build
you up, fill you with confidence, and bring you great joy and success; and they can also break your heart and even beat you down and break you. No matter who you are, the person you are today has largely been shaped by the relationships in your life; and the person you will be five or ten years from now will largely be determined by the relationships you have right now. Truly, the quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life.

The Bible makes it clear that relationship trumps everything else - so, for the next several
weeks, we are going to examine how we can make our relationships better; because when our relationships are better, our lives will be better.

Notes
The quality of your life will not exceed the quality of your relationships.
“You will be the same person in 5 years as you are today, except for the people you meet and
the books you read.” Charlie Tremendous Jones
“You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn
Life moves at the speed of relationships.
Galatians 6:2 NLT
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another person, “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” C.S. Lewis
“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can be bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all you were intended to be.” Charlie
Tremendous Jones
1 Peter 4:8-11 NIV
I will nurture my important relationships.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 NIV
I will restore my broken relationships.
Romans 12:17-18 NIV
I will cut off any harmful relationships.
Proverbs 27:19 TLB
Proverbs 13:20 ESV
I will initiate some meaningful relationships.
Hebrews 10:25 NLT
When your relationships are better, your life will be better.