Why You Keep Running From Relationships (And Why You Should Stop)

Welcome to the Illuminate Church podcast.

We hope today's message is encouraging to you.

We're glad that you're here. We help people find abundant

life in Jesus Christ, and we're doing that in the series called

Community. If you're ready, open your

Bibles. We're going to be in two places,

really a bunch of places, but starting in John chapter 19 and

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Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes chapter 4.

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If you want to put a bookmark in the Old Testament, Ecclesiastes

4 and John 19, we're start with first.

If you need a Bible, raise your hand.

That's why our ushers are meandering around here, these

fine young gentlemen. Thank you, Andy.

Thank you, Carrie and Lady, thank you so much for those.

Anyone else in the Bible. John chapter way over here,

Terry. Oh, they're coming to you, John,

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chapter 19, Ecclesiastes chapter 4, in that order.

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And eventually we get to some other stuff.

But as you're doing that, let me pray.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we welcome you.

You are the King, You are the honored guests.

We're the guests. This is your house.

We've come into your presence. So Lord, speak to us, refine us,

shape us, make us more like your son, Jesus.

Holy Spirit, this is your space. Come and minister to us.

You say that you would lead us into all truth.

So Holy Spirit, lead us today. Heal us today.

We pray in Jesus name, Amen, Amen.

I I believe that in our society in 2026, we have created a

culture of runners. And I'm not talking about the

people who have the brilliance of mind to go outside in 150°

day heat to the pavements like, like melting and they're out

there moving their arms and legs very fast in a singular

direction. I'm more talking about the, the,

the truth that we have become because of technology or

whatever you want to say, a more transient kind of people.

It used to be back in the olden days, like even before

automobiles got that far back, people just stayed where they

were. And then even with the eventual

auto, what is plane, trains and planes, trains and automobiles,

What people still in general stayed where they were from?

It wouldn't be unusual for a family to grow up and the next

generation to grow up behind them and they're living in the

same region or the same neighborhood, sometimes even in

the same home. That was just normal.

And we become a little bit more transient.

It used to be that the person you were going to marry, you

probably knew for your whole life.

You just didn't know you're going to marry them till later.

Your family grew up with them. And it's like, oh, yeah, the

whole time it's been Jane. You should marry Jane, Right?

That's the way it kind of used to be.

Technology has changed that. Now we can have friends all over

the globe. We're moving for jobs.

We're moving because of political persuasions.

Anyone migrated from someplace to don't raise your hand?

We're moving for weather reasons.

We're here and there and we're everywhere.

And on social media and in life, it's become normal just to

unfriend somebody. Like, I'm just done with you.

This is not working. So I'm out.

In the words of Mr. Cube. Ice Cube.

Bye, Felicia. Remember this, anyone?

Of course. Yeah.

Everyone's favorite Cube. Yeah.

When things go South, we don't stick in general.

We run. And when we run, what we're

running from is what we were designed for.

And that's the issue. We were designed for community

by a community. The triune godfather, Son, Holy

Spirit living in community. Boris in his image and his image

is community. And he said go and be community.

And when things get hard and there's we're out, Deuces, I

believe, is the terminology Now, we think the silver lining of

moving away from one community and just going and joining

another one or staying by ourselves is that we no longer

have to deal with the issue over here.

And I get to recreate myself in this new space.

They don't know me here like they knew me there.

You picking up what I'm putting down?

Yeah. So as the saying goes, the truth

is wherever you go, there you are.

Meaning that if you were rude and selfish in Toledo, you're

going to be rude and selfish in Topeka.

If you were lazy and self-serving in this

relationship, you're probably going to be lazy and

self-serving in the next relationship.

If the church you're leaving, you're leaving because they

don't do it the way you like and you get upset and offended, then

the next church you go to, at some point you're probably going

to be feeling the same way. I'm just, it's not, I don't like

it. They don't do it the way that I

want it. It got quiet.

I'll say this, sometimes we leave our community so that we

don't have to change our character.

Running from community allows us to hide.

Running from community allows us to stay the same.

And Jesus says that we're going to grow from glory to glory, not

be flat lined, stay the same. So what I hoped that will show

today, biblically speaking, is that staying and committed

biblical community is actually the thing that God has

prescribed to shape and form us into a more glorified godly

version of ourselves that represents him well, even when

it goes hard, even when there's confrontation.

So the message titled today is simply don't run, don't run.

Here's why. John chapter 19, something

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beautiful happens. Besides the fact that we've been

created for community. Look what Jesus does.

John chapter 19. We're at the crucifixion.

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Jesus has already been stripped, beaten, mocked, spit upon,

unjustly sentenced to death. He's been whipped with the

catanine tails upon his naked back.

He's had the crown of thorns placed upon his head and jabbed

into his forehead. Then he's asked to place the

crossbeam on his shredded back and walk up the Via della Rossa

to Golgotha where they lay him on the ground on the crossbeam

and Pierce his hands and his feet and raised him in a public

spectacle of shame for all the world to see.

And then we have this scene. It's kind of breathtaking.

Jesus is thinking when he's on the cross.

Verse 25, near the cross of Jesus stood his mother.

Just let that sit with you for a second.

She's watching her son perish and he's up there dying saying

there's my Mama. Like, don't dehumanize Jesus

just because he's also God, right?

His mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Clopis and Mary

Magdalene. It's a merry party.

Verse 26, When Jesus saw his mother there, that is, and the

disciple whom he loved, who's John?

Not John the Baptist, but John the disciple, He said to her,

woman, here is your son, and to the disciple he said, here is

your mother. From that time on, this disciple

took her into his home. Jesus is hanging from the cross

and he speaks to his mother and says, woman, some of the moms

here, like if my son called me woman, I would also bring out a

cross. I would.

But woman here is actually a term of endearment.

It means like my lady or mademoiselle, there's a certain

grace to it that we don't get in our translation.

But it's also a cover up for Jesus knows that many there had

no clue who his mom is. They barely know who he is.

There's no pictures or videos of Jesus.

So some of them are seeing him for the first time, hanging from

the cross and they have no idea who his mother is.

And so instead of saying mom and drawing the ridicule of the

crowd to her, he just addresses her as woman.

And then Jesus tells Mary, Mom, you have a new son, it's John.

And he looks at John and says, John, you have a new mother,

it's Mary. If you read the scriptures

through and through, you'll find that one of the greatest themes

in all the Bible is the honor and care of 1's parents.

And here is Jesus dying on the cross, caring for his mom.

Scholars believe, and I would agree with him, that Joseph,

Mary's husband is dead, otherwise she wouldn't need a

new home, a new covering. And so he says, Mom, you're now

a widow and your son's about to die.

I want to care for you. So I'm putting you in a new

family. And John, I'm putting you in a

new family too. So much so that John takes her

into his own home. Remember a few weeks ago when

Christine preached about in the old days in Jesus day?

You can see this when you go to Israel.

They wouldn't build a house and then the kids move over there

and build another house and the kids move over to that suburb

and some are in celebration and some are in Poinciana, right?

They would just add on to their house when the family grew and

more and more rooms. That's why Jesus says, I'm going

ahead of you to prepare a place for you.

Jesus right now is building on to his Father's house for you.

And John does this for us right here.

Now. Mary wasn't a part of his

family, wasn't living in his home.

And John, because she's now a part of the family, invites Mary

into the home. What's happening here?

Jesus is demonstrating that through his blood and by their

faith. Mary and John are the first

members of this new community, this new family of faith.

He's instituted a brand new family, remember in the Psalms

that says he puts the lonely in families and he does it first

with his mother. This is your new son, this is

your new mother. This family that is entered into

by faith and purchased for us through the blood and the

suffering of Jesus Christ so that all the world will know you

can be included. You are invited.

Everybody is loved. Everybody can be in in this

family. That's why I keep saying to you

during this series over and over again, the people sitting next

to you who are believers in Jesus are your literal brothers

and sisters. Sunday mornings are family

reunions in the name of Jesus. Stand up with me right now and

find a brother or sister in this room.

Come on everybody. Even if you're an introvert, hug

your family members right here, right now.

Your brother, your sister, your family, all of your family get

to know each other. Let's have a giant Thanksgiving.

Everyone's invited for Christmas.

Hug somebody you don't know. Hallelujah.

Yeah, if here's the point of what I want to say to you in

regards to this. If Jesus gave his life so that

we can have community, shouldn't we give ours to keep it?

Which means I'm going to let my ego and my pride and my comfort

go down so that I can stay in community with you and you and

community with me. If Christ has done the work to

unite us by the shedding of his blood, how can we be so

frivolous to undo this work? By walking away when things get

hard. Let's flip to Ecclesiastes.

I'll show you another part of community.

I'm trying to convince you to not walk away when it gets hard.

Ecclesiastes, chapter 4, verse 8.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There was a man. Notice his condition all alone.

He had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil.

Yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.

He says. For whom am I toiling?

He asked. And why am I depriving myself of

enjoyment? He's got no one to share all of

this stuff with. All of his work produces stuff

and he's got no one to share the stuff with.

This too is meaningless, A miserable business.

Verse 9. A bunch of verses you might have

heard before and you thought they might have been secular

sayings or somewhere in the Bible.

They're all right here together. 2 are better than one because

they have a good return for their labor.

If either of them falls down, one can help the other up, but

pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.

Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm, but how can

one keep warm alone? Something I learned when I was

in scouts. If you get hypothermia, you

remember this you just got to get another warm body.

Verse 12 though one may be overpowered, 2 can defend

themselves. A cord of three strands is not

quickly broken. The power of community all in

one little section of scripture. A man has everything except

anyone to enjoy it with. Meaningless.

Or instead 2 can produce more than one.

One can lift another up if together, 1 can keep the other

warm if together 2 can withstand the attack better than one.

There's strength in numbers, which comes right from the

Bible. If the community has so much to

offer us, then why are we so often quick to leave it?

If this is the fruit of community, I want to stay in it,

even if it means some hard work and you may say, pastor, what do

you mean we're quick to leave community?

I've kind of already intimated it some, but often we leave

community. We go away from the shaping

relationships around us, typically for one of three

reasons. You could probably add 1000

more, but these are the ones that came to my mind.

Number one, I get offended by Felicia.

This is I'm taking my ball and going home.

I no longer want to play with you.

I don't want to be with you. I don't want to hang out with

you. I don't like I just I'm out,

right Or they require too much of me.

Somebody's trying to hold you to a standard and you don't want to

be held to that standard. So you want to go somewhere else

where there's no standard. I'm out or their teaching is too

hard. Like the what, what who could

ever do that? All three of these happened to

Jesus disciples. So do you think it might happen

to you? You don't have to turn there in

John chapter 6 Jesus is teaching he says I'm the bread of life

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and they're like what we supposed to eat you?

Are you turning this into cannibals and Jesus double S

down he he goes on from saying I'm the bread of life.

Then he says if you do not eat of my flesh and drink of my

blood. This is what the Bible says

there is no life in you. Now for us on this side of

Jesus, as partakers in Holy Communion, once a month here at

Illuminate Church or whatever church you grew up in, we're

used to this symbolism, the body and blood of Christ represented

by the bread and the juice. And so it's normal to us.

But imagine standing there and watching this guy that you're

like, we're following Jesus. He's like, you need to eat my

flesh and blood. He's like, oh, this just got

weird. The Bible records in John

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chapter 6 that they said to themselves, the teaching is too

hard. Jesus is set the standard too

high. And then it says this, they

turned from Jesus and walked away.

Can you imagine? They they turned their back on

Jesus and they left the community of the disciples and

walked away offended require too much.

The teaching is too hard. I wonder this morning, have you

ever walked away when someone has tried to teach you or hold

you accountable or require of you godliness and you're like,

ah, I need to get out of here. When someone holds up a mirror

to you and you don't like what you see, you can either leave

from the mirror or you can learn from the mirror.

Maturity says that we learn from the mirror.

American Society seems that says like just leave.

You want to find people who don't hold up the mirror to you.

That's what your comfort will tell you.

You know what they call people who will not hold up the mirror

to you? Enablers.

Coddlers, I just want you to feel good, so I'm not going to

address what doesn't feel good. Enablement.

Don't run. Don't run.

I'm about to do something I've never done on platform.

I hope it's not weird. That's a knife.

That's not a knife. OK?

Anyway, Crocodile, OK, knives are, yes, they're dangerous, but

they're also incredibly great tools that the Lord has given

us. If you think about what the

knife does in the preparation of food, in the defense of oneself

in the sacrificial system before Jesus, in surgery, scalpels,

they're they're very, very useful.

Unless they are absolutely dull, you do not want to be on a

surgery table with a doctor whose scalpels are dull.

And they're like, yeah, we don't want to be useless tools.

And so the Bible gives us a prescription.

Proverbs 2717. A very famous scripture says

that as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

I'm not a professional away from you.

Is that how you do it? Not this way, because this way

is safe and this way makes people nervous.

Really. Really, I'm fine.

I'm fine as iron sharpens iron. So one man, one woman sharpens

another. But do you notice how it works?

Friction. And nobody likes friction.

And God says, yeah, that's the way that we grow.

And when this happens, what we want to do?

And then it's. Right, no friction.

I got more to say. I want to talk about friction

this morning. It's the friction that sharpens

you, friction which is uncomfortable.

I'll say to you this when your comfort goes down, it's often

then that your character will go up.

Think about working out of the gym.

It's not comfortable. Think about eating better, it's

not comfortable. Think about being trained in

righteousness, it's not comfortable.

But the results are typically always the same.

When your comfort goes down, it's often then that your

character goes up. I'm going to show you what

friction looks like in the church and that the idea today

is that we re address or re see friction.

I want to put it in a better view.

I want to actually appreciate friction in relationships

because then I know that God is at work.

He's doing something. He's going to make something

from this. Amen.

You're so enthusiastic this morning, Ephesians Ephesians

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chapter 4. If you want to flip there really

quick, it's all the way over to the New Testament Ephesians

Ephesians 4:11

chapter 4 verse 11, where see the work of the church and the

point of community all in one little section of scripture.

Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11 says so Christ gave the fivefold

Ephesians 4:11

ministry, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and

teachers. Why?

To equip His people for works of service, so that the whole body

of Christ may be built up until we all, everyone say all, reach

unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and

become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of

Christ. Then we will no longer be

infants tossed back and forth by social media, by talking heads,

by schemes and cunning of the enemy, by waves blown here and

there, by the every wind of teaching and the cunning and

craftiness of people and their deceitful scheming.

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in

every respect a mature body of Him who is the head, that is

Christ. From him the whole body, joined

and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and

builds itself up and in love as each part does its work.

What is this teaching us? Friction actually grounds us and

matures us. The church community, which is

represented here by the fivefold ministry, the apostles,

prophets, evangelist, pastors and teachers, and the body of

the church is meant to come around us and you, me, me, you,

to shape one another towards maturity.

I cannot do this alone. I have to be in community to

attain the full measure of Christ.

It's almost like we're learning here that there's a certain

level of maturity that I can attain on my own and personal

study and devotion to the Lord. But the fullness of my maturity

and my walk with Jesus is going to come from the friction and

the shaping of other believers in my life who are willing to

hold up the Word of God. That is, I skipped the scripture

earlier. I just want to make sure I read

it. Second Timothy 316.

All scripture is God breathed, useful for teaching, rebuking,

correcting and training and righteousness.

We sit together and open the word together.

Our friend says, hey, I was reading Luke and you're not

living like Luke. They wouldn't say it like that,

but friction is meant to ground us and mature us.

It's the refinement from the body.

It is the iron sharpening iron. You cannot be sharpened by air.

Your growth requires community alone.

People end up to be dull people, a tool of the Lord, but you

become a little bit useless because of the lack of the

refinement that comes from the community, which feels to us

like friction, but it's actually a grace from the Lord to shape,

to refine. So my counsel use don't run,

decide to stay, meaning I'm going to stay where it hurts.

And listen to me. I'm not talking about church

abuse. I want to be very clear.

I'm not talking about something that's amoral or illegal.

I'm talking about character shaping or somebody's

challenging the way that you live, the way that you speak,

the way that you think, and say, Hey, can we align this to the

Lord? And you were like, I, I'm going

to turn my back on Jesus and walk away from the community

because the teaching is too hard.

And Ephesians chapter 4 is saying, stay in the body and be

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sharpened in community. Don't run, stay.

Decide to say #2 just so we're clear, friction doesn't have to

be ugly. There's this assumption that

confrontation means bad, and really it's the friction.

It's the confrontation that shapes us.

We have something here at the church called our field guide,

looks like this. It's got Pastor Kim involved

around and Patrick on the front. They're looking great.

Baptism. Yep, in the field, guys.

A lot of things with the two major things that are in here

are our vision, which is what we do, and our cultural values,

which is the manner in which we do what we do.

You understand, one of our cultural values essentially says

this. We speak the truth as a staff,

as dream team members. We speak the truth in love,

which is right here out of Ephesians chapter 4, but we also

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receive the truth as love. So the assumption is that when

you walk into my office or I walk into yours and there's

correction, there's friction, there's confrontation that we

need to walk through. The assumption is that you're

walking in in the motive of love, and I'm going to receive

what you're saying to me as love, which makes it much more

easy for you to say what you need to say to me, knowing that

I'm perceiving it correctly. You're coming in to say this

because you love me. Candor is king in the context of

love. As a result, we will not walk

away in fear of giving or receiving truth, even if it

causes healthy confrontation. We embrace it because it makes

us better. How do you speak the truth in

love? Lots of ways.

Let me just give you 2 ideas. Number one, always go to them,

not to others. When you go to others, it's not

very loving. What's private has now become

public, and there's public opinion about something that's

private between two people. And so because I love you, I'm

not going to make a spectacle of this.

Instead, I'm just going to talk to you because I love you and #2

check the motive of your heart before you walk in.

What's your motive? Is change your desire?

Is your desire for good? Or is it really, let's be

honest, to punish them? You can walk into an office or

to a relationship or to the church and your motive be I want

to bless with my words or my motive is I really just want to

curse you. I I want something bad to happen

to you because of the way that this has made me feel.

That's not speaking the truth in love.

That's speaking the truth. Had a selfish motive out of

anger. So my counsel to you is don't

run. Instead, you be an agent that

cultivates safety. You want to be the man or the

woman who says, when I walk into the room, I trust that you and I

have love between us so that we can talk about anything for the

sake of growth. Patrick Lincione says the best.

He's an author. He's written a bunch of

leadership books. He's a believer in God.

He in in the Five Dysfunctions of a team.

He says when there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the

pursuit of truth and attempt to find the best possible answer.

How about that conflict, seen rightly, is actually a good

thing. We're seeking the truth.

We want the best outcome for you and for me #3 Finally, friction

eliminates false peace. What a deception.

False peace. We think we're at peace, but

we're really not. We think everything is OK, but

it's not true. We just shoved it under the rug.

Luke chapter 6. Let me just read these two

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scriptures to you. Why do you look at the speck of

sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the

plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother

or your sister, let me take the speck out of your eye when you

yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye?

You hypocrite, This is Jesus speaking.

First take the plank out your own eye and then you will see

clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

The main point of Jesus's teaching here is that

introspection must come first. I got to check myself in the

mirror before I go. Hold up the mirror for anybody

else to show them a blind spot. That that's the point.

Don't miss it, but also don't miss this, the very end of the

passage. Jesus doesn't say in the end,

Don't go, Jesus doesn't say. Don't help them.

Jesus doesn't say. Just sweep it under the rug and

deal with this another day which never comes.

That is false peace when we say nothing about the issues between

us because we want to keep up appearances or just keep the

relationship. If no one talks about specs and

planks with one another, then we're going to walk around with

a lot of specs and planks. And that's what false peace

looks like. Nobody willing to have a hard

conversation, to be candid, to be loving, no one really willing

to receive somebody that comes with candor and love.

Like I'm leaving. And if you are in a community of

people who pretend there are no specks and doesn't deal with

planks, don't run. Lead the way.

You lead the way by asking them. Is there anything in me that

needs correcting? Christine and I have a weekly

meeting Sundays. We talk about everything,

finances, plans for the week, and one of the questions we ask

each other. Is there anything I did this

week or said this week that we don't use these words but needs

correcting and vice versa. And we share.

Yeah, when you slam the fridge never happens.

I don't know what to make up, but we we share.

Yeah, that was a hard conversation or that didn't land

right. Or when you do this, it makes me

feel this. And you know what's happening

the whole time. And Sunday by Sunday, our

marriage matures because we're open to receiving the frictions

saying there's something not right, so let's make it right in

Jesus name. When you have Patrick Lincione,

he doesn't call it false peace. He calls it artificial harmony.

And he says it's a relationship killer.

When there's false peace, there's no real engagement

because the entire relationship is built on falsehood.

When there's false peace, there's no truth.

So you can't tell when somebody's talking to you like,

is this truth or lie? Are you giving me the real

truth? Are you covering up or?

And when there's false peace, there's no hope for growth or

improvement. We're just going to pretend like

everything's OK and stay this way for the rest of our lives

and not mature. Stay in broken places, broken

relationships. And then we wonder why we're

upset. Don't run.

Instead, surrender your view of yourself to the shaping of the

community. It's a very vulnerable place to

be, to say I know that the only way that I become the fullness

of Christ is to allow myself to be examined by you and for you

to tell me the truth. Yeah.

Tim, you are flapping in the wind in this area.

You don't even know it. But I love you.

I want to show it to you. You know, I really, when I say

this, I really love the staff here at Illuminate Church.

I love these people. I love seeing them in the

office. There's nobody's office that I

like walk by like really quickly, you know, love it when

we have meals together, we laugh, we cry together, we pray

together, we read together, we go on retreats together and

actually enjoy it. Hallelujah.

But it wasn't always that way. When we started as a church, I

thought that our culture would just form around the fact that

I'm a nice guy and we love each other and working for Jesus is

fun sometimes. We had no cultural values, and

so a lot of things would happen on staff in the early days and

just wouldn't be addressed because we didn't have know how

to address them. We didn't know how to speak the

truth in love or receive the truth in love.

We didn't know how to seek First things first.

We didn't know what that meant. That alignment is more important

than assignment. It's better that we have

relationship than we get this thing done.

We're just getting things done at the sake of relationship.

You understand what I'm saying? And so the Lord had us write the

culture guide and now this staff that we have and some former

staff members too, it's just been a wonderful ride.

We know how to walk through hard things together.

And I promise you this, our staff, we ain't perfect.

We got issues, we got problems. There is friction regularly, but

nobody clinches, nobody deuces and runs away.

We come to the table and then we stay at the table.

We have hard conversations and I watch staff member sharpening

staff member, and I've experienced staff members

sharpening me and none of us on this staff are the same that we

were a year ago because we've decided to not run and to stay

even when it was friction and it's been happening.

I'm better, Christine's better, Ronnie's better, Sarah's better,

Dave is better, other Dave is better, Alex is better, Kim's

better. There's a lot of work on Kim.

I'm just kidding. I want to close today by saying

to anyone here who's been a runaway that the Lord brought

you here today, say, come home. This message is not meant for

condemnation. It's always meant for

invitation. You may feel conviction that's

the Holy Spirit, but maybe you've run from a community

that's trying to shape you or run from the Lord who's trying

to shape you, and you just say today I'm turning back around

and facing Jesus. I'm turning back around and

entering the community. Maybe it's at your home.

Maybe you need to sit at the table and say we're not leaving

the table until we speak the truth in love and receive the

truth is love. Maybe it's at your workplace.

You got to set the culture yourself, even if it's just you.

I'm going to cultivate safety. I'm going to walk through hard

spaces knowing that it matures me and hopefully the other

person as well. Not going to run.

I've done the running, it just delays the inevitable.

I'm going to stay. I have these 3 words for you.

Return, repair and recommit. Return to community.

Allow the community and you to them, them to you to do some

healing, some repairing, and to make a commitment.

We're not going to run from this table.

We're going to stay when it gets hard.

We're going to do the work knowing that the friction

actually makes us better as we resolve it together.

I have one question. You can write this down.

Ask it of God. Ask it of.

Someone you trust, but don't ask him unless you're willing to

hear the truth. These 4 words, will you sharpen

me? Thanks for joining us today.

We hope God is speaking to your heart through this message.

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Have a great week.