Hey, welcome today to all of our life churches, our open network churches, our family all over the world at church online.

We are in part three of a four part message series called Relational Vampires.

What in the world is a relational vampire?

You know what a vampire does? A vampire sucks, you're blood!

Well, we're talking about relational vampires. How do we love the people that suck the life out of us?

Week number one, we talked about controlling and manipulative people.

Last week we talked about those who are very critical.

Next week we have a very, very powerful teaching on how do we deal with hypocritical people?

Those people in our lives are around us that claim one thing but their lives actually are something else.

What do we do? Do we have a right or an obligation to speak into the lives? We'll talk about that next week.

Today what I want to do is talk about how do we love the people that can be overly needy?

The people that we really do care about them but they always need a little more than we're able to give them.

In fact, there is a spiritual principle and I've told you before in every group, every family, every small group, every sorority,

every team, there is always at least one needy, crazy person.

In fact, the Bible says that wherever two or three are gathered, at least one of them is crazy or something like that.

How many of you would agree that there's always a crazy person?

Leave your hands up, leave them up, leave them up.

I want you to look at the people that do not have their hands in the air right now.

Just look at that person and tell them there's always a crazy one.

How do we deal with those people who are always in need?

How do we love and care for those who are hurting that need a little extra attention or always in need of help?

You know when you see them, the conversation is going to take a little while longer than some of the other conversations.

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