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Building Relationships: Following Jesus and Walking Together

Explore the joy of building relationships by following Jesus, making wise choices, and investing in others. Discover how to love, serve, and encourage one another in a community where everyone is valued.

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Building Relationships: Following Jesus and Walking Together

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  1. Or following Jesus Just taking a walk…

  2. Building Relationships

  3. Just taking a walk or following Jesus. Building Relationships The Fellowship of the Believers 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. Acts 2:42-47 NIV

  4. Just taking a walk or following Jesus. Building Relationships What is building a relationship? 1. Sharing life together-praying together, being accountable to others 2. Involving yourself in opportunities that make a difference in the community 3. Investing in people who are not like yourself, taking risk. 4. Investing yourself in opportunities in this Body. 5. Making wise choices so you can take advantage of opportunities.

  5. Just taking a walk or following Jesus. Building Relationships How to build a relationship? 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:23-24 NIV 13 For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. Galatians 5:13 NLT 14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. John 13:14 NLT

  6. Just taking a walk or following Jesus. Building Relationships How to build a relationship? 27 After this Jesus went out and saw a man who gathered taxes. His name was Levi (Matthew). Levi was sitting at his work. Jesus said to him, “Follow Me.” 28 Levi got up, left everything and followed Jesus. 29 Levi made a big supper for Jesus in his house. Many men who gathered taxes and other people sat down with them. 30 The teachers of the Law and the proud religious law-keepers talked against the followers of Jesus. They said, “Why do You eat and drink with men who gather taxes and with sinners?” 31 Jesus said to them, “People who are well do not need a doctor. Only those who are sick need a doctor. 32 I have not come to call good people. I have come to call sinners to be sorry for their sins and to turn from them.” Luke 5:27-32 NLV

  7. Just taking a walk or following Jesus. Building Relationships How to build a relationship? 1. Love one another 2. Serve one another 3. Encourage one another 4. Forgive one another 5. Invest in others.

  8. Just taking a walk or following Jesus. Building Relationships Why build relationships? 30 I and the Father are one. John 10:30 NIV 14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14 NIV 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:17 NIV 19 We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 NIV

  9. Just taking a walk or following Jesus. Building Relationships Why build relationships? 1. God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus are relational. 2. God is a builder of relationships. 3. God intends for us to build relationships 4. Because He first loved us

  10. Just taking a walk or following Jesus. Building Relationships 23 Search me, God, and know my heart;    test me and know my anxious thoughts.24 See if there is any offensive way in me,    and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24 NIV

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