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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, every relationship we enter into has an impact on our personal lives, every single one.

Now obviously some more than others, like your parents are going to have more of an influence on you than your mailman,

unless he's just like a really dynamic mailman but every

relationship has some kind of impact on our lives. You may have some professors or

teachers you've basically forgotten but you've had others

that their perspective worldview has shaped yours you're never the same

after having interacted with them. So all different relationships touch us with

different levels of impact but for each one of us there's a handful

of relationships that when we enter into them they leave no area of our life unchanged.

And for Donna and I, where we stand in life,

we get to meet with a lot of people entering into two

kind of critical relationships in life.

We talked to a lot of people that are entering into marriage and we talked to a lot of people that are entering into marriage

and we talked to a lot of people who are entering into parenthood having a child

and those relationships, spouse and child, are some of those relationships and

when you enter into those no area of your life

remains untouched. And my guess is most of us in here know that. That's kind of self-evident.

You're like, well, worse, I know that. It would be weird.

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