{"id":130,"date":"2004-04-24T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2004-04-24T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/04\/relationships.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:48:44","slug":"relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/04\/relationships.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird at the Thinklings had a great post<\/a> about the importance of relationships the other day. It really hit home for me for reasons I’ll make clear in a post that’s brewing.
\nMore on that later, but I wanted to comment a bit on the importance of relationships. I think that relationships aren’t just nice to have or even invaluable, they are one of the fundamentals that I’ve begun to write about. Not who we have <\/i>but who we are <\/i>to others.
\nJesus’ ministry was all about relationships, giving to others. The things we tend think church is about – Sunday services, a building – weren’t even a part<\/i> of Jesus’ ministry. He came here to give to us, to mentor us, to disciple us and we ought to follow his example of selflessness and outward focus.
\nSo to me, to put it bluntly, I think any life as a Christian that isn’t relationship driven is a lie. That’s part of the definition of Christianity. You can’t say “I follow Jesus.” but not be relationship driven because that is what Jesus was.
\nJared in the comments at Thinklings laments on what Christians that live an isolated Christian life are missing. Yes, they are missing the benefits of such relationships to their own life as well as the joy of being able to make a difference in someone else’s life. I think that they’ve actually missed the whole point and found something else, not Christianity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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