Your growth horizontally will affect your intimacy vertically.

Dr Tony Evans says our fellowship with other believers strengthens our relationship with God.

So if you want more of God for you, you better show some of

God to others so that the two connect with one another.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior

pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the

Urban Alternative.

Most higher level college courses require a prerequisite.

In other words, you can't move on without having first laid the proper foundation.

Well, Dr. Evans says true fellowship comes with a prerequisite

as well. Let's join him as he shares what's required of those who want to get closer to

God. John is the apostle of intimacy. He was the closest of all the disciples to Jesus. He is the

one who rested his head on Jesus' chest.

He speaks about himself in the Gospel of John

as the one whom Jesus loved.

There was an exceptional closeness with John. So when John writes First

John and Second and Third John as well, he wants this next generation of believers to enter into a deepened experience with God.

Married people know it's possible to be legally married and unhappy.

Legally married and even miserable.

Legally married, but living intention,

because the relationship is not operating as it should.

Even so you can be a Christian and be justified, but not in harmony with God.

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