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Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

Relational Vampires, Part 2: Critical People

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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Life Church, Life.church, Craig Groeschel, Lifechurch, Christianity, Sermons, Lifechurch.tv, Messages, Message, Religion & Spirituality, Sermon, Christian

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 35 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, it's great to have you with us today at all of our life churches and our open network

0:14.1

churches.

0:15.1

We're in a message series called Relational Vampires.

0:19.9

What do vampires do?

0:21.4

They suck your blood.

0:23.7

We're talking about in this message series, how do we love people who suck the life out

0:30.8

of us?

0:31.8

How many of you have somebody in your life that can be a little bit difficult at times?

0:36.1

Last week we talked about those who are controlling us.

0:39.2

Next week we're going to talk about those who are very, very needy, who are always in need.

0:44.0

How do we love them appropriately?

0:46.0

On the final week we're going to talk about how do we minister to those who are hypocritical?

0:51.3

When they call themselves a Christian and yet they don't live, like Christ, what's our

0:55.5

role?

0:56.5

Do we have a role at all?

0:57.8

If so, what do we do?

0:59.5

Today I want to deal with something that all of us will have to face at one point or another,

1:05.4

all of us will face critical people.

1:09.1

Those who can be overly critical.

1:10.8

In fact, how many of you would say that you have someone in your life that has the spiritual

1:15.9

gift of thought finding?

1:17.8

Anybody have somebody like this?

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