How to Reconcile a Relationship - Part 2
6/24/202621 min
When you meet with someone to resolve a conflict, you need to listen to the other person's hurt and perspective. Pastor Rick shares in this message how to speak less, listen more, and change your focus so that you can reconcile a relationship.
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[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren. We are so glad you're here with us today. We're going to continue our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life. Now, in these messages, Rick walks through Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and shows us how to live a truly hopeful and purpose-filled life. And we're continuing with part two of how to reconcile a relationship.
Rick Warren· Host0:26
The Bible says there is no fear in love. Now, God is love. If you get full of God, the fear is gonna go. What motivates a normally rational person to run into a burning building? Because they know a baby's in there, and the fear is overcome by their love for that child. We never change until our love exceeds our fear. We never change until the pain exceeds our fear. And so the starting point is to say, "God, I need you to fill me with your love," because perfect love casts out all fear. The Bible says this in 2 Timothy 1:7. It says, "God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but a spirit of power and love and self-discipline." So everything I'm gonna teach you today, the steps, and they're very practical steps, cannot be done unless you get filled with God's love, because it is the love of God that's gonna eliminate the fear, and then