Scripture Reading

John 15: “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.

John 15:12-17 (cont.) 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.”

4 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Relationship Status 1 Corinthians 15:33

5 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Change One thing that never changes - Change!

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7 Relationships are Important!

8 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Show me your friends and I will show you your future. 1 Corinthians 15:33 –Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

9 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This A couple of key relationships: 1. Everybody needs a Paul - A Mentor 2. Everybody needs a Barnabas - An Encourager

10 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Everybody needs a Paul - A Mentor 2 Timothy 1:13, 2:1,2 – 13 Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. – 2 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

11 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Hebrews 13:7 – 7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. 1 Timothy 3:2, 2 Timothy 2:24 able to teach – 2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober- minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, able to teach – 24 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,

12 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Proverbs 27:17 –Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. 1 Corinthians 11:1 – Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

13 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Everybody needs a Barnabas - An Encourager Acts 4:36-37 – 36 Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus, 37 sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet.

14 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Actions Hebrews 10:24-25 – 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

15 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Words Ephesians 4:29 – 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

16 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This 1 Thessalonians 5:11 – 11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

17 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This What is your relationship status? Show me your friends and I will show you your future. Need to make some changes?