Relationship Goals
The Force of Relationships
By Ed and Lisa Young
January 3, 2016
From casual acquaintances to lifelong connections, relationships are all about linking our lives with other people. As we look at the relationships in our lives, so much of what we experience has to do with romance and dating. But what does God have to say about dating? Who are we supposed to date? How are we supposed to date?
In this message, Pastor Ed and Lisa Young give us some powerful principles to follow when it comes to the world of romance and dating. Because when it comes to this connection, God has some important guidelines for rating our dating!
Transcript
Happy New Year to everybody, 2016! You know, I’m beginning a series with my lovely wife, Lisa, called Relationship Goals. And it’s amazing how popular relationship goals are. #relationshipgoals
Ed: I would not suggest you go onto that hash tag because it’s not really…
Lisa: Which we know that if we tell you that, you’re temptation is going to be to go there. Don’t go there.
Ed: But I, Lisa…
Lisa: The hash tag is: #relationshipgoalsFC That’s a good one.
Ed: That’s the one. I, though, am very nervous, Lisa, about this series because the stakes are sky high for every single person here. Let’s face it. Life is all about relationships and our great God is a relational God. We’re made in his image, thus he wants us to relate and for our relationships to cruise, to soar, not just remain stagnant or in some sort of a situation that’s negative.
Lisa: That’s right. And many of us have started this year with goals. We’ve started this year wanting to lose weight, wanting to be more fit, maybe to work out more consistently. Some people want to see career changes, maybe you’re wanting to maybe save more money, quit smoking. I don't know. The list goes on and on. But what studies have shown is that all of these things that we have goals over are hinging or are contingent upon one very important thing. And that’s our relationships. So instead of thinking about your diet or exercise, yes that’s good to think about it, but what if we focused more on the people who are surrounding us and the success that we will find in these different areas of life, just based on relationships. So when Ed says, wow, I feel somewhat scared to talk about this. I feel like the burden is heavy, yeah, it’s heavy. Because the stakes are sky high. Every single person who is in this room or at one of our different environments, you have such potential in your life but so often that potential is catastrophically defeated just by the people you’re hanging around with. And too often we look around and we say, wow, look what is surrounding me. Look what is surrounding me rather than look who is surrounding me. We need to be concerned about the who more so than the what.
