This Week's Message

IT’S COMPLICATED

Every relationship has friction. But not every difficult person in your life is the problem. This Sunday, we kicked off our brand-new series, It’s Complicated, with an honest look at how we handle difficult people. Before asking how to deal with them, we were challenged to ask a harder question:

What if the common denominator is us? Sometimes honesty becomes an excuse instead of a value. Our apologies come with fine print. Everyone else becomes the villain in our story. We keep receipts on the people we love. We expect grace while struggling to extend it.

But recognizing what needs to change in us is only the beginning. Romans 12 gives us a better way to respond when relationships get difficult: refuse to repay evil with evil, pursue peace as far as it depends on you, release revenge to God, and overcome evil with good.

We can’t control how other people treat us, but we can choose who we become in response. God’s wisdom gives us a better way to love—even when relationships get complicated.

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