02/11/18 LAUGH YOUR WAY TO BETTER RELATIONSHIPS: Broken People in Relationships

The video mentioned in this podcast is from Mark Gungor's Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage series, the episode mentioned is the Tale of Two Brains. You may be able to find clips on YouTube if you are interested. 

 

Laugh  Your Way to Better Relationships
Week 1-  Broken People in Relationships   (The reason why we can't all get along)   

1Corinthians 13:4-7 (MSG)
“Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.”

Romans 7:15-20 (NIV)
“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.  And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.  As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.  For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.  For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.  Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.”

Notes:

• Are there times where you find it hard to be loving? why? 
• How do you respond to your selfishness?  Ignore it? beat  yourself up?  ask forgiveness?
• Who do you relate most to?  Steve, Sally or Jody?
• What did you learn about relationships? Sin and brokenness? 

 

Applications

___  I need to stop hiding from deeper relationships

___  I need to learn more about my areas of weakness

___  I never realize that God is attracted to my brokenness

___  I need help in loving like Christ loves.