The document discusses the importance of faith and relationships, emphasizing that true love and respect are key to healthy connections. It highlights common myths about relationships and outlines the 'Crazy Cycle' where feelings of being unloved and disrespected can lead to negative reactions. The text advocates for unconditional love and respect between partners, providing practical advice for nurturing relationships.

2. Life = Faith * Relationships

3. (1) Pursue God
(2)Build Community
(3)Unleash Compassion

4. Great Relationships are Possible…
They’re just not Probable!

5. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit
into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on
God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.

6. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly
respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always
dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings
the best out of you! Romans 12:2

7. “When I love God more than my earthly dearest,
then I shall love my earthly dearest more than I do now.”
CS Lewis

8. Relationships Myths
Relationships are EASY and NATURAL

9. Relationships Myths
Relationships get better with TIME

10. Relationships Myths
Marriage makes it all BETTER
Cinderella Myth – and they lived happily ever after…

12. and they
lived…

14. Relationships Myths
I need someone to COMPLETE me
Jerry McGuire Myth – YOU complete me…

15. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to
understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the
fullness of life and power that comes from God. Eph 3:19 (NLT)

16. Woman without her man is nothing
Woman, without her, man is nothing
Woman without her man, is nothing

17. “We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will
react and behave in certain ways — the ways we react and
behave when we love someone.” John Gray

18. “Be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Ephesians 5:18

19. “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
Eph 5:21

20. “each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and
the wife must respect her husband.” Eph 5:33
Key to Healthy Relationships

21. The primary need of a women is Love
The primary need of man is Respect
We are wired Differently

22. Crazy
Cycle

23. Crazy
Cycle
Love and Respect
by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

24. Crazy
Cycle
She feels
unloved
He feels
disrespec
t
She
reacts
He reacts
She Nags or
She Pursues
He withdrawals

25. Crazy
Cycle
She feels
unloved
He feels
Disrespect
She
reacts
He reacts
“Love brings up our unresolved feelings. One day we are
feeling loved, and the next day we are suddenly afraid to
trust love . The painful memories of being rejected begin
to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting
our partner's love.” John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from

26. Crazy
Cycle
She feels
unloved
He feels
Disrespect
She
reacts
He reacts
The Past…
The Past…

27. Energizi
ng
Cycle
His Love
Her Respect
Motivates
Her
Motivates
Him

28. At the heart of flourishing relationships is
Unconditional Love and Unconditional Respect
Sermon in a Sentence

29. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving
each other, JUST AS in Christ God forgave you.
Eph 4:43

30. Unconditional Respect
1. Respect his desire for CONQUEST
2. Respect his desire to ANALYZE and to COUNSEL
3. Respect his INTENTIONS
“Not to be needed is a slow death for a man.”
John Gray

31. Homework
2-3 things you Admire and Respect about your spouse

32. Unconditional LOVE
1. Love her by getting to KNOW HER
2. Love her by AFFIRMING HER
3. Love her by making her your PRIORITY
“Men need to remember that women talk about problems
to get close and not necessarily to get solutions.”
John Gray

33. Homework
2-3 things you Value and Affirm in your spouse

34. Warning!
I now know what wrong with you!