The Gaps (1 of 2)
22 November 2009
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Believe the Best
Speaker: Adam Davis
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Luke 10.33 NLT
Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him.
1 Corinthians 13.7-8 AMP Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails. Proverbs 28.20 NLT
The trustworthy person will get a rich reward… When there’s a gap between expectations and experience: We choose to BELIEVE the best or ASSUME the worst. Review the questions below and take this with you to your eleven32 group.
Are there people you have a difficult time trusting? Is it your issue or theirs? Has concealed suspicion poised past relationships? How? How do you tend to react when someone else creates a gap? When you’ve created a gap?
Next Steps:
- Read Luke 10.30-37
- Identify someone you’ve had a hard time believing the best about and set a time to go over the 5 commitments with them.
- This week spend time reflecting on the people in your life you are most thankful for.
Portions of this talk were taken from outlines by Andy Stanley & John Maxwell
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this is something that I have really been wrestling with over the past few months. We work with relationships everywhere we go and in most of the things we do. These principles are key to making those relationships work and function to the full potential of what they are meant to be. My experience in the past has been to assume the worst, which seems to run into a trust issue. Once I was confronted with this it was very hard for me to grasp but as I began to apply these principles of believing the best my relationships and performance of my expectations went up.
This is a major principle. To believe the best is a lot of work, I think because it is tied directly to love & love unconditionally. That’s were Jesus revolutionized relationships – in loving and believing/knowing the best about someone. Great talk – great thing for all of us to work on always!
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