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Is your whole Christian life dependent on someone else?

Maybe your parents, maybe your husband, or your wife, or someone else?

But the moment they're not there with you, you just collapse and can I just say two words to you?

Grow up.

Coming up today on a new beginning,

Pastor Greg Lawry points out God wants a personal one-on-one relationship with each one of us,

and He wants us to work at it.

Work out your own salvation.

This is the day when the lost are found.

This is the day of a moment again.

Amazing grace, don't we just know?

Again you get a moment at your place again.

This is the day when life begins.

Some people say absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Others say out of sight, out of mind.

The truth is, any relationship requires connection.

What do we say about friends who drifted completely out of our lives?

Oh, so and so is someone I used to know.

The same dynamic applies to our relationship with God.

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