Fireproof

Never leave your partner behind!  Coming up this Sunday, March 29 at 9 AM New Life Community Church is sponsoring a showing of the movie Fireproof, so I've been thinking a lot about relationships and why we are struggling so much in Western culture to fall in love an stay in love.  While romance seems to be alive and well, we are increasingly alienated from one another and more people than ever are living alone.  Why?  Well, many are waiting longer to get married.  Others are divorcing or separating more often.  And we are living longer.  The net result is that many people are feeling left out, alone, and suffering from the broken relationships of the past.  

And yet there is one constant which we all carry with us.  The constant need for good stable relationships in which we can give and receive true love.  I wonder how many people are living with true love in their lives right now as I write this?  True love really isn't an emption, it is the loving acceptance of a loyal friend.    Jesus said, "greater love has no man than this: that he lay down his life for a friend."  How many people are you willing to lay down your life for?  the answer might be revealing as it relates to "true love" and your relationships.

That's the idea behind the Fireproof movie--never leave your partner behind!  Firemen live by this motto.  And we know there something noble and enriching about this motto when we live it out in daily life.  Why, then, are we having such difficulty living out "true love" in our lives?

I believe the answer lies in a relationship with God.  You can't really love until you have been loved.  And many of us have never been truly loved.  We need to receive God's love into our lives.  Many people are turning to the love and company of pets these days.  Why?  Because they are looking for unconditional acceptance.  But God will not only love you, he will also transform you into someone who can love others unconditionally.  That's something your pet can't do.

Join us on Sunday at the Forum 8 Theaters for the Fireproof movie.  9 Am on March 29.  See you there.  Tom