Mind Your Heart
“Know and Be Known”
Philippians 2:1-8

How do we listen to our hearts without losing our minds?

Relationships
Casual >>> Serious
Co-worker, Neighbor, Friend, Dating, Family, Married

Five Relationship Dynamics
Know, Trust, Rely, Commit, Touch

Ground rule
Never go further in one area than you have gone in the previous 

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus –Philippians 2:5 (NIV)

Love a jerk

Avoid being in a relationship with a jerk

Jerks
Constantly break boundaries
Don’t see things from someone else’s perspective 
Lacks emotional controls and balance

To know and be known takes …
1. Time (v. 1-2)

…For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. —1 Samuel 16:7

To know and be known takes …
2. Conversation (v. 3-4)

Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. –Ephesians 5:33

90-day Relationship Rule

To know and be known takes …
3. The right identity (v. 5-8)

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. –Ephesians 3:19 (NLT)

No human being can complete you; only God can

Every relationship

To know and be known and loved anyway