Prescription for Healthy Relationships
“Lasting Relationships”

God created us to be in relationships and meant for them to last.

“Be in the world, but not of the world” - Jesus’ prayer, John 17:15-16

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Prescription for Healthy Relationships
	For people who really want to identify love and not be distracted or consumed by sex
	Script for lasting relationships
	How to know you’re in love
	Difference between love and sex
	Sexual purity in a sex-crazed world
	There is a better way

World’s prescription for lasting relationships
	1. Find the right person
	2. Fall in love
	3. Fix your hopes and dreams on this person
	4. If failure occurs, repeat 1-3

Ephesians 5:1-2

Love is choosing to pay a personal cost for someone who needs love the most, even when they don’t deserve it.

God’s prescription for lasting relationships
	1. Become the right person
	2. Walk in love

How?
	Answer: Wisdom

James 3:17

I will not…
	Compromise my integrity
	Provoke your anger
	Minimize your feelings
	Criticize your suggestions
	Emphasize your mistakes 
	Mask who I am

God’s prescription for lasting relationships
	1. Become the right person
	2. Walk in love
	3. Fix your hope on God and please Him through this relationship

God’s path - Spiritual, Social, Mental, Emotional, Physical
World’s path - Physical, Emotional, Mental, Social, Spiritual

God’s prescription for lasting relationships
	1. Become the right person
	2. Walk in love
	3. Fix your hope on God and please Him through this relationship
	4. If failure occurs, repeat 1-3