Hey everybody it's Matt. This is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I want to start

by going somewhere probably painful today. I want to invite you to think about the last time you blew out a relationship.

Not the last time somebody did it to you. I want you to picture that moment where you you that you kind know, know, I'm not talking about like Northern Midwest passive

aggressiveness where you kind of got in a little dig or maybe that wasn't cool.

I'm not talking about American South passive aggressiveness, which is different than Northern Midwest

passive aggressiveness. I'm not talking about Netherlands passive aggressiveness. Oh wait, they

don't have passive aggressiveness over there. They just say exactly what they're thinking all the time.

Maybe good on them?

But back to my question, none of that stuff.

I mean like a straight up burn down the relationship kind of incident.

Can you think of a time you've done that?

Hey if you can't you are either frankly very self-sacrificing and kind and that's awesome.

There are people who I really don't think have any of those battle wounds or any of those

casualties relationally in the rearview mirror.

I think it's rare, but I think it happens.

Or you just don't see it, and you think that everybody was hard on you

when the reality is some people were hard on you,

but you were tough on other people.

If we love people and we have relationships and we hang out in close proximity with each other,

we're going to screw things up. Sometimes we might even screw things up in a really hurtful calculated way.

Well, let me take you to the next place then.

If you can picture a time that you burned a relationship, can you then picture a time when you had to go back and interact with the person

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