Healthy Church Relationship

Your relationship with God grows in three ways through your time with Him:

1) A Father/child relationship is developed. 2) The fruit of God's Spirit is cultivated. 3) Your daily life will become a reflection of God Himself.

• Celebrate the good things in your relationship. Tell your partner, in words and actions, how much you love and appreciate them. Let your partner know what you value about them and about the relationship. Put it into words and don't assume they already know. Everybody likes to be told that they are appreciated and loved.

• Talk openly about your feelings and what you need from the relationship.

• Create opportunities for intimacy. Take time out to be together as a couple when you can focus on each other and on your relationship. The harder it is to do this because of children, work or other commitments, the more important it is that you do it. Try to plan a regular evening, day or weekend for the 2 of you to be alone.

• Accept that your relationship will have highs and lows. Continue to explore new ways of finding a deeper level of intimacy. These moments don’t need to be grand gestures of love. Taking time, even small moments, together is just as important as going on a date together.

• Be positive and grateful about what you have in your relationship.

• Be aware that both parties in a relationship need to initiate opportunities for creating intimacy.

Four Essentials for Healthy Church Relationships

1. Don't just go. Get involved. ...

2. Maintain a loving attitude. Attitude is the combination of heart and mind. ...

3. Pursue loving actions. Anything you are doing with or for a person within your church body should be characterized by love. ...

4. Speak loving words.

Maintaining Relationships in the Church:

As we show Christian love for one another, we should also maintain a good relationship with one another by: having compassion, that is, sympathy, empathy, concern and consideration for one another.