This Week’s Experience – 10/1/2023

Message

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.

-Philippians 2:5

If I on someone else to me then I’m going to be extremely disappointed.

Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ. For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. And God has made you complete in Christ.

-Colossians 2:8-10

God did not design me for , but rather .

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”

-Genesis 2:18

In my dating relationships if I haven’t from the past, I won’t have in my future.

And he said, “This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”

-Matthew 19:5

To rely on my spouse will require me to seek first to before I’m .

Plans go wrong for lack of advice; many advisers bring success.

-Proverbs 15:22

 

LIFE APPLICATION
To discuss during the week with your family, Life Group, or Campus.

1. Describe a time you were overly reliant on someone? How about a time when you didn’t rely on someone enough? What do those two experiences teach you about the proper amount of reliance you should have in a romantic relationship?

2. Who do you rely on to speak into your dating relationships or marriage?

3. Which of the scriptures today impacted you? Why?

4. What else stood out to you in this message?

5. What next step is Jesus asking you to take as a result of this
message?