Healthy Relationships | For the Health of It Part 4
Message Summary: God wants us to have healthy relationships. He modeled it for us when He chose the twelve disciples. Jesus was the Son of God, yet He chose to work alongside people. He could have done it himself. Instead, He appointed twelve so he could have fellowship. He wanted us to know how futile it is to live life alone. It’s impossible to fulfill your potential by yourself.
Jesus shows us what healthy relationships look like.
- We need quality relationships on the same mission.
- We need relationships that stretch us to fulfill our calling
- We need relationships where we can speak the truth.
We are designed to be fully known and fully loved, but we are terrified if we are fully known that we will not be loved and will be rejected. We all have a calling that requires courage and faith, but we need someone to encourage us.
Jesus saw Peter as a rock even though he blew it over and over again. Jesus knew what Peter would do and loved him anyway and he told him who he was. You are enough. Your feelings are not always the truth. It’s powerful to know what God says about you, but even more powerful is a friend that reminds you.
- What can we learn about healthy relationships from the way Jesus appointed the twelve disciples?
- Why is it important to develop healthy relationships on the same mission as you?
- What steps can you take to begin to develop healthy relationships?
- What can you do to serve others and continue to build healthy relationships in your life?
John 15:15-16 – I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
Mark 3:13-14 – Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons.
Matthew 16:18-19 – And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 26:31-34 – Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: “‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.” Peter replied, “Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.” “Truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.”
Matthew 26:36-38 – Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”