(9) Don't make conversion a goal just build healthy
loving relationships with people.
The whole of the bible sets out the desire of God to have
a loving relationship with His people made in His image.
I've met many people through the support group I've attended who have healthy and
loving relationships with people suffering from a mood disorder or addiction.
It can be the beginning of a new terrific
loving relationship with the person of your dreams.
Not exact matches
Even
people who live in their News Feeds tend to have a
love / hate
relationship with Facebook.
«
Persons who use any of these maintenance strategies will not only be more satisfied
with and committed to their
relationship, they are also likely to continue to
love and, yes, even like each other throughout its duration.»
This set of
people engaged in a random national survey about how to find a compatible partner along
with other questions about
love and
relationships.
One word that makes us happy: Progress [21:21] We grow because that helps us give more — share it
with someone you
love, it magnifies it [22:04] More excited about feeding one billion
people than any material thing, so much more meaning when it's not just about you [22:19] The challenge is our brain: it's looking for what's wrong, because that helps you survive [22:30] Peak state = high energy, feel extraordinary, producing results is easy [22:46] Low energy state = say things and do things that hurt your
relationship [23:39] Peak State = Beautiful state, Low - energy state = suffering state [24:08] Over achievers don't suffer, right?
She
loves working
with people and facilitating the
relationships between merchants, OPMs, and affiliates.
We are better
with more, not less
people living in committed
loving relationships.
I have struggled
with this a great deal as I want very much to maintain a close
relationship with my family but find myself growing increasingly distant because it is just too painful to be close to
people that I
love dearly but feel completely rejected by for something that I have come to recognize as a core part of who I am and how I view myself and the world around me.
We require
loving relationships with other
persons, and usually a spouse and children, to be who we really are as relational beings.
It has nothing really to do
with religious faith - it has to do
with people's ability, in their final hours or days, to see
love as way to understand their life and their
relationships and find some comfort in that understanding.
However, the author muddies the
relationship with have
with God
with the
love we have for other
people.
People who don't believe in your God are still capable of deep committed
love, it's through our intimate
relationships with other human beings we learn the true meaning of
love.
She went on to say: «He very much valued the importance of
relationships, of
people affirming those
relationships and of seeing stability in
relationships and
people able to be together
with people that they
love.»
It often seems as the «share» the details of this
relationship that Jesus is more like a child's imaginary friend who is always on their side when any conflict occurs
with others rather than the Jesus who
loved people enough to tell them, without accusing or withdrawing affection, the hard truths they needed to know to encourge them to make more meaningful choices.
Every year, millions of
people abandon the institutional way of doing church, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate
relationships with others and
loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disciples.
Perhaps because women are often honest about our relational needs, we frequently send this false message to women, implying — or blatantly claiming — once they wholeheartedly give themselves to a
relationship with Jesus, they will no longer need the friendship,
love, or companionship of other
people.
Do I have any problem
with two
people who
love each other voluntarily committing to the sort of
relationship that my wife and I enjoy and calling it Marriage?
If a homosexual
person is so made that an intimate
loving relationship is possible only
with a member of the same sex, on what basis can this experience of
love be declared sinful?
In the second instance, where individual
relationships are developed in the process of helping individual needs, the mass of needy
people are transformed through
loving personal
relationships, in which they are coached and trained to make any necessary changes in their life, or just provided
with the means, resources, and personal accountability to climb up to the next step.
So in your mind having a
loving respectful long term
relationship with the
person you
love and are committed too while raising a wonderful children is a sin.
Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many
people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it
with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than
with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate
with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a
relationship of
love with them.
Daily I find myself slipping into those same old habits of judging
people based on their theological positions and spending more time reading and writing about Jesus than actually building
relationship with Him and
loving «the least of these.»
The minister's role in
relationship to the family is to (a) help them accept the painful fact that their
loved one is mentally ill; (b) assist them in getting the
person to psychiatric help; © maintain a supportive counseling
relationship with them to help them understand and learn from the crisis.
She's the most amazing
person and her
relationship with her wife is so steeped in unconditional
love, peace and joy, that I CAN NOT judge her for it.
It had nothing to do
with a
loving relationship between two
people of the same sex, and homosexuality was NOT the sin of Sodom in whatever form.
I have a private / secret Facebook group for Christian moms of LGBT kids who
love their kids unconditionally, want to develop and maintain authentic,
loving, healthy
relationships with their LGBT kids and are working to make the world a kinder, safer, more
loving place for LGBT
people.
You are supposed to be in a
relationship with the all powerful, all - knowing, all -
loving creator of the universe... that «fact» should be enough to inspire such profound humility... the kind of humility that
people genuinely respect and are influence by.
Maybe you're really just too afraid of him to let yourself dwell upon this, but if your «
relationship»
with God is actually fear - based, then the whole concept of God's
love for
people requires some review, yes?
They were being violent moron, that's rape and has nothing to do
with what we now understand about the
loving long term committed
relationships of gay
people, its the same as straights.
We try to
love people, get to know them, build
relationships with them and even help them when possible because we believe that is the way Jesus lived.
Keeping all these things in mind, we try to
love people and build friendships and
relationships with them.
In her latest book, How to Fix a Broken Record, she shares a variety of stories from her own life like learning her worth, learning to
love herself to learning to say no to
people and growing in her
relationship with God.
For the first several years of her
relationship with Jesus, worship music was so important to her — she
loved to sing, to hear other
people singing, to gather
with other Christians at church services or worship concerts.
I can't prove anything to anyone, but I can stand here and tell you how thankful I am for my
relationship with Jesus because I am a different and better
person because of my experience of His
love for me.
Western Christianity has become more deistic than theistic and Scriptures that reveal a metaphysics of Divine Transcendence and a deterministic legal agenda rather than a
love story of God's relationship with the people S / He has chosen to prepare to become sacraments of Divine Love in the wo
love story of God's
relationship with the
people S / He has chosen to prepare to become sacraments of Divine
Love in the wo
Love in the world.
But to human existence in its inadequacy and defection, God comes in the ceaseless
love which is God, to remedy this and to bring
people into a right
relationship with God and
with other humans.
You're able to really focus on becoming the sort of
person you'd want to fall in
love with, and that will be net positive for your life and your future whatever happens to your
relationship status.
The fact that the Bible lends itself to competing interpretations should be cause for celebration rather than dismay, for these competing interpretations among
people of faith who
love and value Scripture help bring us into
relationship with one another and
with God.
The death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and
love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those
persons with whom I enter into
relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.
Jesus knew that His
relationship with the Father was not about these sorts of lists, which is why
people loved to hang out
with Him.
As a strong Catholic who is of service to the community on a regular basis,
loves the faith, respects other's rights to have their faiths as well, and — yes — has a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ, I would
love to see CNN's belief blog write a story about the positive of the Catholic faith, instead of always reading about the
people that have left and the problems
people have
with the Church.
We want to affirm
people as valuable and
loved, and we want to help
people come into a better
relationship with God.
No,
people who are sent to hell are sent there because they have not chosen to
love God and build a
relationship with Him.
But we can and should do pre evangelism through sharing
loving relationships with non believers What if we don't have «evangelism events» but instead trained
people to simply
love others?
We prefer to get to know
people, build
relationships with them, learn to
love them and help them in areas where we know they need help.
In no area is this adventure so promising as in the one - to - one,
person - to -
person,
relationships where two human lives are glad to share and work together, for the best good of each and
with love as the motivation and resource as well as the result of that sharing.
The point of the Pentateuch is to show that complete failure of law and religion to lead to the
relationship of
love that God wants
with His
people.