Relational Vampires, Part 1: Controlling People

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 3 June 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

They drain your joy, eat up your time, and rain on your parade, but there’s a better way to deal with Relational Vampires than stakes, garlic, and pitchforks. Let’s learn how to love the people who suck the life out of us.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome today to all of our life churches, all of our open network churches.
0:13.9	Today we're beginning a brand new message series that I believe has the potential to
0:18.6	speak to you in a massive way.
0:21.9	We're going to talk about loving people because as God loves us, we're called to love people.
0:28.3	I wonder at all of our churches, how many of you recognize that some people are a little
0:33.5	more difficult to love than others, any of you ever come across, somebody like that.
0:37.8	That's what we're talking about in the next few weeks.
0:40.1	We're talking about relational vampires.
0:44.0	What does a vampire do?
0:46.0	A vampire sucks your blood.
0:48.8	What do relational vampires do?
0:51.4	They suck the life out of you.
0:55.0	That's what we're going to talk about in the upcoming weeks.
0:58.0	How do we love the people that suck the life out of us?
1:02.4	Let me tell you where we're going to go next week.
1:04.7	We're going to talk about loving the people that can be overly critical, always picking
1:09.5	us apart.
1:10.5	Week number three, we're going to talk about loving the very needy people that whatever you
1:15.5	do for them, it's never enough.
1:17.3	They always need more.
1:18.7	How do we love them appropriately?
1:20.6	Week four, we're going to talk about loving people who are hypocritical.
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