We transform our relationships with other believers by encouraging, serving, and mentoring them. Rather than seeing other believers as a "necessary evil" we should see them as people who, like us, are struggling forward in spiritual growth. When we sacrifice ourselves to encourage, serve, and mentor others, we will find spiritual growth.

For more information, read my cross-post on my sermons blog.

This sermon picks up on the first of four transformational relationships I introduced a couple weeks ago. Everything starts with God and must be traced back to God and flow from God. Relationships with other believers are a natural outgrowth of our relationship with God. They represent a first-step in transformation. Take a look at the second quadrant.

Use my "get-started" post, this chart, the outline, and the slides to begin thinking more deeply about how your relationship with other believers needs to be--and can be--transformed.

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To grow spiritually, we need to regularly engage in four different areas of relationship: with God, with believers, with neighbors, and with strangers. This graphic describes these four areas by focusing on a core thought, a key scripture, a leading action, and several examples of each.

My personal view is that we should always be focused in our relationship with God and at least one other significant relationship in one of the other three areas. We can supplement this with ongoing activity in the other two relationship areas.

By taking action and cooperating with God (Philippians 2:12-13), we'll grow spiritually and be transformed (Romans 12:1-2).

The sermon MP3 is located beneath the Sermon Theme graphic.

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