Slides for June 2011 Bible Talk.

1. Connection
In a Biblical Way

2. Meaning of Connection

3. Meaning of Connection
(kə nek′s̸hən)
noun
1. A relationship in which a person or thing is linked or associated
with something else
2. Relation or association

4. Connection
Through Game

5. Type of Connection

6. Type of Connection
• Physical Connection

7. Type of Connection
• Physical Connection
• Mental Connection

8. Type of Connection
• Physical Connection
• Mental Connection
• Emotional Connection

9. Type of Connection
• Physical Connection
• Mental Connection
• Emotional Connection
• Spiritual Connection

10. What connects/disconnects
one to/from the others?
- In Your View -

11. Trustworthy
Being Vulnerable
Being Open
What connects/disconnects
one to/from the others?
Hurt
- In Your View -
Shame
Fear Frankness

12. Expert View on
Connection with others
- Brene Brown -

14. If you can’t measure it, it
doesn’t exist.

16. How we connect to
God?
- How do we get close to God? -

17. 1. Complete honesty/
vulnerability with God
- Honest about our faults and our feelings -

18. Job 42:7-8 (NIV)
7 After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the
Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you
have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. 8 So now
take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and
sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for
you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to
your folly.You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job
has.”

19. 2. Choose to obey God in Faith
- Obey out of love and love motivates us to obey his
commands -

20. John 15:14 (NIV)
“14 You are my friends if you do what I command.”

21. John 15:9-11 (NIV)
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now
remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will
remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands
and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy
may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

22. 3.Value what God values
- We care about what is important to those who we are
closed to -

23. Psalm 69:8-9 (NIV)
8 I am a foreigner to my own family,
a stranger to my own mother’s children;
9 for zeal for your house consumes me,
and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.

24. 4. Desire the relationship with
God more than anything else
- We are as close to others as we choose to be -

25. Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)
13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all
your heart.

26. You are as Close Connected to
God as you choose to be
James 4:8
“Come close to God and He will come close to you...”

27. Thank You