GOD’S BLUEPRINT FOR RELATIONSHIPS:� �BUILDING CONNECTION �THAT HONORS HIM

SESSION 4:�JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES’ RELATIONSHIP

Who’s in Your Boat?

Who’s in Your Boat?

• Who in your life helps you grow in faith, and how?
• What makes those relationships meaningful?

³⁴ A new commandment I give to you,

that you love one another:

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just as I have loved you,

you also are to love one another.

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³⁵ By this

all people will know that you are my disciples,

if you have love for one another.

John 13:34-35 (ESV)

JESUS & HIS DISCIPLES’

• Servant Leadership
• Mutual Leadership
• Shared Mission

JESUS & HIS DISCIPLES’

John 13:1-17

John 15:12-15,17

Servant Leadership

John 13:1-17

Jesus Washes the

Disciples' Feet

Mutual Leadership & Shared Mission

John 15

¹² “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. … ¹⁷ These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

BUILD MY LIFE

• JESUS SHOWS US A LOVE THAT SERVES, INVITES FRIENDSHIP, AND BUILDS COMMUNITY.
• AS WE RESPOND, WE CHOOSE TO BUILD OUR LIVES ON HIS LOVE.

Helping Hands

• 2 person groups
• dominant hand behind back
• work together to stack cups

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Helping Hands

Just as Jesus built His community on mutual support and humility, in our relationships, we too often need each other’s help to complete what God calls us to do.

Helping Hands

When words are limited love shows up through

• patience,
• humility, and
• shared effort

Each person shares one simple way they could serve or encourage someone in their life this week. ��Short prayer …

Servant Circle

Love is essential to Serving

Serving is essential to Friendship

Friendship is essential to Community

REFLECTION

• Silent personal reflection time.
• How can we be more Christlike in our friendships and in church relationships.

Individual Reflection

Word of the Day

Each person shares one word or short phrase on what stood out from today.

Challenge

Before the next session:

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Jesus built community by serving and lifting others up. How can I practice this same love in my relationships this week?

LET US PRAY….