Bob and Peggy Relationships as a basis for leadership
See people as God sees people otherwise it inhibits our effectiveness with them.
“Imago Dei” – Image of God
Genesis 1:26 – 27 we are created in the image of God. If every human being is created in the image of God, how should we look at them? Our call is to see people as God sees them. It will change the way we see and feel about people. Don’t see people as machinery. People are people, they have a name, a life story and God knows that life story. God loves and has died for each person. He wants a relationship with that person.
People are worthy of a relationship and only in that relationship will we be able to minister to them. When God saw me as worthy of a relationship, He saw me as worthy of forgiveness. There is no God like our God. He loves, blesses, forgives, shows grace and mercy. We are to be an embodiment of God. People are to see Christ in us – to be drawn to God.
Relationships and their beauty is what God is all about. Satan has dedicated himself to breaking relationships. “We see ourselves as important and everyone else must change, conform and think me.”
Every relationship has its differences. Trying to change people brings conflict as we tend to concentrate with what’s wrong in a person. Focusing on differences destroys marriages, relationships, churches and so on, as it brings in a wedge. It takes courage to see what is happening here as Satan is trying to destroy us.
1 Corinthians 5:17 God is in the ministry of reconciliation. He renews broken relationships. God created us to love one another, not change one another.
Imago Dei – Image of God
Compiled by Molly Manhanga
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