Why Build Healthy Relationships?
What do relationships have to do with a person’s spirituality? What makes a person truly spiritual? Some people may point to the person who gives up worldly attachments, retires to a monastery or mountaintop and seeks inner peace and enlightenment through meditation. Some might point to a person who believes that the blood of Jesus has paid for our sins. Some might think of the person who has thorough knowledge of the Bible or other spiritual texts and teachings. But all the enlightenment, all the faith and all the knowledge in the world mean nothing without loving relationships with others. “If I have faith that can move mountains, but I don’t have love, I am nothing” (1 Cor. 13:2). Jesus said that everything in the Bible points to two things: loving the Lord and loving your neighbor (Matt. 22: 32-40). He said the same two kinds of love would bring us eternal life, and to give an example He told the story of the Good Samaritan who helped a man lying wounded by the roadside. Then Jesus
