Questions for Pondering:

1. Why do you find relationships to be so messy?  Do you ever feel like they just aren’t worth it?  That you want to just give up?
2. In seeking to help our struggling relationships, we often make the mistake of trying to solve things by relying on ourselves.  How do you rely on yourself to fix relationship problems?  Why does this never work?
3. We talked about how the Bible tells us that the starting place of relationships is with God, who even within himself is relational (as the Trinity).  Have you ever thought of God in this way?  How does the 1 God, 3 persons relational dynamic of the Trinity change your view of God and how you relate to him?  How does this help us understand our humanity?
4. Skye Jethani, in his book With, talks about how we often like to use God as opposed to be with God.  What are ways that you might be using God?  
5. Why is the concept of communion with God, the idea that God fundamentally wants to be with you and me, so challenging to accept?
6. During these next few months as we delve into what the Bible has to say about Relationships, what’s one way that you’d like to grow?  Why?
7. What’s one takeaway that you have from tonight?  What actionable next step related to your takeaway could you take in an effort to move towards relying more on Jesus?