Deep and Profound Relationships

Here in our church we have Bible Alive classes for singles, for marrieds, for children, for youth.  In these groups you can connect with people.  Then we even break it down into smaller increments called home teams which meet together regularly.  They are designed as incubators for relationships.  We have athletics, we have men's ministries, women's ministries. Ed Young Television stated that many different things in our church are built upon relationship and building those relationships.  So I challenge you, don't just hang out with the same people always.  Take that risk, step out, pray about it and God will answer your prayers in a mighty, mighty way.  If you could see what kind of relationships that God has for you, it would blow you away. God wants you to have deep and profound relationships.  But it is up to you and me to take the initiative.

I have moved around a lot in my life.  I lived in Irwin, NC, Canton, NC, Greenville, SC, Columbia, SC, Houston, TX, Tallahassee, FL, back to Houston, TX and now I am in Dallas.  I plan on staying in Dallas for the rest of my life, but I have moved around a bunch.  And I looked back this past week as I was studying this whole aspect of relationships and friendships and I thought about my closest friends.  I have, I think, the greatest friends a man can possibly have.  And I thought about those friendships and how they happened.  Was I just walking down the street one day when someone whistled and asked me what was going on, how I was doing and suggested that we become best friends?  Did they just call me one day?  Did we just look at each other and kind of hit it off?  No.  I will tell you what happened.  I took the initiative.  I picked up the phone, I walked up to the person, I made the eye contact and developed the relationship.  Now I know that all of us do not have a personality like mine that is maybe more aggressive relationally than others.  But I don't care whether you are an extrovert, an introvert or whatever kind of vert, you, if you will follow God's plan, can have a Jonathan and David type of relationship.  And there is no way I can be even half the person I am without my friends.  Take the initiative.