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Conclusion

Conclusion. Four Basic Human Relationships 10 of 10. Introduction. To understand ourselves. To understand how we are to function. To deepen our Christian walk and witness. To help others most effectively come to Christ. To help struggling Christians become stronger through identity of self.

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  1. Conclusion Four Basic Human Relationships 10 of 10

  2. Introduction • To understand ourselves. • To understand how we are to function. • To deepen our Christian walk and witness. • To help others most effectively come to Christ. • To help struggling Christians become stronger through identity of self.

  3. To understand ourselves • Concerning God: • You have purpose, honor and dignity. • You are accountable for your actions • Your actions matter.

  4. To understand ourselves • Concerning others: • We are in the same boat as others. • Our love/service towards one another means something.

  5. To understand ourselves • Concerning self: • You are more than the sum total of your mistakes. • You should strive toward “Christ-likeness”.

  6. To understand ourselves • Concerning Creation • Management of creation is part of our purpose. • The earth’s redemption is tied to ours. • The Gospel can be illustrated through creation.

  7. To understand how we are to function • Rationally: • Through Scriptural rule • Sound Reasoning • Advise of fellow Christians • Morally • Relying on Scripture for morality. • Relying on the Holy Spirit for transformation • Without showing partiality

  8. To understand how we are to function • Balancing Dependence and Independence.

  9. To deepen our Christian walk and witness • Looking at the aspects of Dependence on God, recognizing the independence of our wills. • To search for our purpose God has for us. • Explaining why we temper the Gospel with love for fellow man.

  10. To help others most effectively come to Christ • This is why we explored the concept of the image in everyone, and what that looks like, and what that should look like. • Concerning creation: the role of special and natural revelation. • When we best understand ourselves, we can best help others.

  11. To help struggling Christians become stronger through identity of self. • No one, Christian or not, is meant to fly solo. • We are called to bear each others’ burdens. • Our identity is to be found in Christ, not our former selves.

  12. Key Quotes from the study. • “Thou madest us for thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee”—St. Augustine • “The universality of the image means that there is dignity to being human. Each individual is something beautiful, even though a distortion of what God had originally intended humankind to be.”—Millard Erickson

  13. “We do not make people religious by teaching them about God. We teach them about God because they are religious by design of creation. Human beings are in desperate need of a relationship with God.”—F Leroy Forlines • “When done for the glory of God, all that we do is a divine service.”—F Leroy Forlines

  14. Powerful verses from the study • Psalm 8.4-5, “What is man that you are mindful of him? Or the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.”

  15. Powerful verses from the study • I Peter 2.9-10– “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into this marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but know you have received mercy.”

  16. Philippians 3.7-8, 10—”But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss for the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord…that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and may share in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death,”

  17. James 5.19-20 – “My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.”

  18. Romans 1.19-20, “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”

  19. Conclusion • “It is not only possible for us to be rational and moral and to have functioning relationships, but we need to function rationally and morally, and properly in the framework of the four basic relationships. Failure in any of these areas means loss…It is only when we allow special divine revelation inform us about human design and its implications that we can develop an adequate understanding of human need and how to effectively minister to those needs.”—F. Leroy Forlines

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