Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today's episode, we'll listen to a session from Paul's conference, Your Walk with God is a community project.

Here's Paul helping us to think about our lives as followers of Christ and how it should shape

the way that we live.

Well, I want to begin this evening with a question, not a deeply theological one, although

it is rooted in deep theological issues.

If you had a pencil and a piece of paper in front of you

and you were going to write about the importance of relationships

to your faith, the importance of relationships to your faith,

the importance of relationships to the work of God,

what would you write?

That's a rhetorical question you don't need to answer aloud

for those of you who immediately got nervous.

What would you write?

If you had to write,

responding to the question,

are relationships essential to the work of God,

what would you write?

That's really what we want to talk about

for the hours that we have together.

And in order to do that, I want to lead you on a bit of a journey.

If you don't have a Bible with you, please get near someone who

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