Speaker 1: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the broadcast ministry of
Speaker 1: Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in the series Essentials
Speaker 1: for Living. In these lessons, Pastor Rick shares the power
Speaker 1: you need to live on, the principles you need to
Speaker 1: live by, and the purpose you need to live for
Speaker 1: so that you're truly living and not just existing. First,
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Speaker 1: Rick Warren with part one of a message called how
Speaker 1: to Connect with People.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been in one of those conversations where
Speaker 2: you just weren't connecting. You're doing everything you can to
Speaker 2: make sense, and no matter how hard you try, you're
Speaker 2: just not getting through to that person. You may be
Speaker 2: talking to a teenager and they think you're from another planet.
Speaker 3: You may be talking to a child.
Speaker 2: You may be talking to your husband or wife, or
Speaker 2: an employee, but for one reason or another, it just
Speaker 2: isn't connecting. One of the deepest needs that you have
Speaker 2: in life is the need to be understood. We all
Speaker 2: desperately need to feel that somebody understands us, that somebody
Speaker 2: can feel what we're feeling and can think what we're thinking.
Speaker 2: We all need people who connect with us. And if
Speaker 2: you don't ever have anybody in your life that you
Speaker 2: feel connected to like that, it has all kinds of
Speaker 2: negative effects. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, this
Speaker 2: California Department of Health mental study. It's so profound I
Speaker 2: want to mention it again. They discovered that if you're
Speaker 2: disconnected from other people, there's nobody in your life that
Speaker 2: you really feel understands you, you are two to three
Speaker 2: times more likely to die from an early death, You
Speaker 2: are four times more likely to suffer from emotional burnout,
Speaker 2: you are five times more likely to suffer clinical depression,
Speaker 2: and you are ten times more likely to be hospitalized
Speaker 2: for an emotional or mental disorder. Human connections are good medicine.
Speaker 2: You need them. They're not just something that's nice to
Speaker 2: have in your life. You need them physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Speaker 2: You need people who understand you, who relate to you,
Speaker 2: and who can connect to you. Now, last week we
Speaker 2: talked in this series about the importance of being spiritually
Speaker 2: connected to a church family. But even if you are
Speaker 2: connected to a church family, if you don't know how
Speaker 2: to connect to people one on one, you can still
Speaker 2: feel detached. You can feel still feel disconnected. So today
Speaker 2: Tom and I are going to do a mess. It's
Speaker 2: called how to really connect with people, how to connect
Speaker 2: with them on the deepest level. Now, this is one
Speaker 2: of life's most important skills, learning how to really connect
Speaker 2: with people on a heart to heart, soul the soul
Speaker 2: of fellowship level. Unfortunately, nobody ever teaches us how to
Speaker 2: do this. It certainly isn't taught in school how to
Speaker 2: relate interpersonally.
Speaker 3: You know, you learn.
Speaker 2: Science and geography and math and history and language in school,
Speaker 2: but nobody teaches you really how to connect with people.
Speaker 2: And if you don't know how to connect with people,
Speaker 2: you're not going very far in life.
Speaker 3: It's just that simple. You may be brilliant in some.
Speaker 2: Subject, but if you don't know how to connect with people,
Speaker 2: you're just not going to go very far in life.
Speaker 2: It is the most basic skill you need how to
Speaker 2: deal and how to relate with other people. Now, these
Speaker 2: six principles that we're going to share today, I'm very
Speaker 2: excited about because every one of you in this room
Speaker 2: need this material. Doesn't matter what age, your stage in
Speaker 2: life you are in. If you were a parent and
Speaker 2: you want to know how to better connect with your children,
Speaker 2: you're going to use these principles. If you are engaged
Speaker 2: or married and you want to know how to better
Speaker 2: relate to that other person that spouse, you can use
Speaker 2: these principles. If you are a teacher, or an employer
Speaker 2: or an employee, no matter who you are, if you
Speaker 2: need to get close to anybody in life, you need
Speaker 2: these principles. In fact, these would be good rules for
Speaker 2: a small group, and we have over two thousand small
Speaker 2: groups that saddle back. These would be guidelines for how
Speaker 2: you should react and relate in a small group.
Speaker 3: Now, to get the most out of today's message, at the.
Speaker 2: Start, I want you to think of somebody that you
Speaker 2: would like to be closer to. Think of somebody that
Speaker 2: you would really like to connect on a deeper level
Speaker 2: with than you're connecting with them right now. In fact,
Speaker 2: in order to make this specific, I want you to
Speaker 2: write down their initials somewhere on your.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't see any of you doing this, so I'm
Speaker 2: going to just wait right now. If you can't think
Speaker 2: of somebody you really need this message, Believe me, you
Speaker 2: can't think of anybody you'd rather be closer to. You
Speaker 2: need this message, So right, write their initials or write
Speaker 2: them backwards. Nobody's going to look at it anyway. Who
Speaker 2: would you like to get closer to? Who would you
Speaker 2: like to have a deeper connection with? Some of you,
Speaker 2: it needs to be somebody you need to reconnect with,
Speaker 2: maybe reconnect with a child, or reconnect with a parent,
Speaker 2: or reconnect with a former friend. And somebody who's been
Speaker 2: in your life very important. You see, it's possible to
Speaker 2: get disconnected too once you have been connected. A lot
Speaker 2: of marriages do this, many married. Most marriages start off
Speaker 2: close and connected, but somehow, over time they just get
Speaker 2: disconnected and it's hard to get reconnected.
Speaker 3: What do you do?
Speaker 2: The first key to connecting is this, be courageous. You
Speaker 2: must be courageous and take the initiative. What I mean
Speaker 2: is you've got to be willing to take the first step.
Speaker 2: You don't wait on somebody else to connect with you.
Speaker 2: You must take the initiative to connect with them. Now,
Speaker 2: this often takes courage. Why because it's fear that disconnects
Speaker 2: human beings. When we are full of fear and anxiety,
Speaker 2: we don't get close to each other. In fact, we
Speaker 2: back off of each other. We're afraid of what We're
Speaker 2: afraid of being rejected. We're afraid of being manipulated. We're
Speaker 2: afraid of being vulnerable. We're afraid of being hurt. We're
Speaker 2: afraid of being used. And all of these fears cause
Speaker 2: us to be disconnected in life. Now, this fear is
Speaker 2: as old as mankind. When Adam and Eve sinned and
Speaker 2: God came looking for Adam, Adam said, I was afraid,
Speaker 2: and I hid, And people have been doing that ever since.
Speaker 2: We are afraid, and so we hide, We hide our
Speaker 2: true selves. We don't let people know what we're really like.
Speaker 2: We don't let them see the inside of us. Why
Speaker 2: because if we let people know what we're really liking,
Speaker 2: they don't like it. We're up a creek without a paddle.
Speaker 2: It's tough luck. I mean, why am I afraid? To
Speaker 2: tell you who I am, because if I tell you
Speaker 2: who I am and you don't like me, I'm in
Speaker 2: for it. I have no alternative. And so we wear
Speaker 2: masks and we pretend. And fear does three terrible things
Speaker 2: to relationships. Number One, it makes us defensive. We're afraid
Speaker 2: to reveal ourselves and we defend ourselves, and when people
Speaker 2: point out weaknesses, we just retaliate and we defend ourselves.
Speaker 2: Number Two, our fears keep us distant. We don't let
Speaker 2: people get close to us. We want to withdraw, we
Speaker 2: want to pull back. We want to hide our emotions.
Speaker 2: We don't want to let people. We don't want to
Speaker 2: be open and honest, but we become defensive and distant.
Speaker 2: And Third, our fears make us demanding. Whenever we're insecure,
Speaker 2: the more insecure we are, the more we try to
Speaker 2: control things. And so we try to have the last
Speaker 2: word in a relationship and we try to dominate and
Speaker 2: we try to control. And it is always a symptom
Speaker 2: a fear of insecurity. Now, where do you get the confidence,
Speaker 2: the courage to take the first step in connecting with someone,
Speaker 2: to going to a deeper level of intimacy. Where do
Speaker 2: you get that kind of courage. You get it from
Speaker 2: God's Spirit in your life. Look at what the Bible
Speaker 2: says two Timothy one, p. Seven For the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 2: God's gift does not want you to be afraid of people,
Speaker 2: but to be wise and strong, that's courageous, and to
Speaker 2: love them and enjoy being with them. How do you
Speaker 2: know when you're filled with God's spirit.
Speaker 3: Simple. One of the ways is you're more courageous in
Speaker 3: your relationships.
Speaker 2: You love people, you enjoy being with them, You're not
Speaker 2: afraid of them because God's Spirit is in your life.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The Bible says God is love, and the Bible says
Speaker 2: love casts out all fear. So when the more of
Speaker 2: God you have in your life, the less a fear
Speaker 2: you're going to have in your life because God is
Speaker 2: love and love casts out fear. So the starting point
Speaker 2: in connecting with anybody is to pause and praise, say God,
Speaker 2: give me the courage to take the first step. Some
Speaker 2: of you need to do that this week with a
Speaker 2: person you need to connect with, give me the courage
Speaker 2: to take the first step, to take the initiative. The
Speaker 2: second key to connecting is to be considerate, to be
Speaker 2: considerate of their needs in other words, if you want
Speaker 2: to connect with people, you have to start with their needs,
Speaker 2: not your own. You have to start with their hurts,
Speaker 2: not your own. You have to start with what they want,
Speaker 2: not what you want.
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Speaker 2: The Bible says in Philippians two four, look out for
Speaker 2: one another's interest, not just your own. Now, friends, that
Speaker 2: is such a counterculture verse because everything in our culture.
Speaker 2: From the moment you were born, you are conditioned to
Speaker 2: think first of yourself. You don't think about other people naturally.
Speaker 2: That's something you have to learn to do. You naturally
Speaker 2: think about your needs, your desires, your goals, your ambitions,
Speaker 2: and what you want in life.
Speaker 3: I gotta do what's best for me.
Speaker 2: I got to think of me first, and as a result,
Speaker 2: we have many, many millions of people disconnected because everybody's
Speaker 2: thinking of themselves and not being considerate of each other's needs.
Speaker 3: This last week, I was watching.
Speaker 2: TV and during about a two hour period, I saw
Speaker 2: three commercials with the same byline, you deserve it. It
Speaker 2: was the byline, you know, buy this shampoo, you deserve it.
Speaker 2: Buy this great car, you deserve it. And we are
Speaker 2: taught you know that we are the supreme value in life. Now,
Speaker 2: let me teach you two very basic truths about life.
Speaker 2: The first one may surprise you, but it is true.
Speaker 2: And the first rule of life is this. The world
Speaker 2: does not revolve around you. Now, I know that's shocking,
Speaker 2: but the world does not revolve around you. You're very
Speaker 2: special in God's eyes. You were created for a purpose.
Speaker 2: But the world does not revolve around you. If you
Speaker 2: want to know how much you be missed. Stick your
Speaker 2: hand into a bucket of water and pull it out
Speaker 2: and see what kind of hole you leave. It fills
Speaker 2: up pretty quick, pretty quick. And so the world does
Speaker 2: not revolve around you. So don't be expecting the whole
Speaker 2: world to come and just say how can we meet
Speaker 2: your needs? Because it's not. The second basic truth of
Speaker 2: life you need to learn is this. God has promised
Speaker 2: that when you focus on meeting the needs of other people,
Speaker 2: he guarantees.
Speaker 3: He will meet yours.
Speaker 2: So you want your needs to be met, simple, start
Speaker 2: focusing on meeting the needs of other people. God says
Speaker 2: it over and over in the Bible that if I
Speaker 2: focus on meeting the needs of other people, God assumes
Speaker 2: responsibility to meet all of my needs. Why because He
Speaker 2: wants me to learn to be unselfish. He wants me
Speaker 2: to learn to be loving. He wants me to learn
Speaker 2: to be generous like him. Colossians three thirteen says this,
Speaker 2: you must make allowances, an allowance for each other's faults,
Speaker 2: and forgive the person who offends you. Remember God forgave you,
Speaker 2: so you must forgive others. Now, part of being considered
Speaker 2: of other people's needs is making allowances for their faults.
Speaker 2: Part of being considered of other people's needs is not
Speaker 2: expecting them to be perfect. You're not perfect. You could
Speaker 2: never attain perfection, so why would you demand it of
Speaker 2: anybody else? Nobody is perfect. I read recently, a woman
Speaker 2: wrote to Dear Abby, Dear Abbey, I'm forty four years old.
Speaker 2: I'd like to find a man my age with no
Speaker 2: bad habits. Abby wrote back, so would I, because there
Speaker 2: are no people with no bad habits, with no faults,
Speaker 2: and so we have to make allowance for each other's
Speaker 2: false Let me give you another verse. Proverbs seventeen to
Speaker 2: nine says love forgets mistakes.
Speaker 3: Love forgets mistakes.
Speaker 2: When you are trying to make a connection with a person,
Speaker 2: you're trying to be considered their needs. It's not that
Speaker 2: you are blind to their faults. It's that you choose
Speaker 2: to overlook them. Great friends have good forgetters. They forget
Speaker 2: the bad stuff intentionally, you know, they just keep on.
Speaker 2: Like I said, they have good forgeters because love forgets mistakes.
Speaker 2: A good friend never says I told you so. A
Speaker 2: good friends never says, how could you be that stupid? Instead,
Speaker 2: a good friend is considerate of the other person's needs.
Speaker 3: Tom's going to talk about the next.
Speaker 5: One third way to connect with people is to be
Speaker 5: constructive with your words. Take your words and use them
Speaker 5: to build people up. As it says in this verse
Speaker 5: in Ephesians chapter four, verse twenty nine, do not let
Speaker 5: any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only
Speaker 5: what is helpful for building others up according to their needs,
Speaker 5: that it may benefit those who listen. In that verse,
Speaker 5: would you circle building others up? God wants us to
Speaker 5: take these words and use them to build people. I
Speaker 5: was thinking, I was thinking about building this week, and
Speaker 5: I recalled earlier in our marriage, Seandell and I had
Speaker 5: a home that was flooded and we had groups of
Speaker 5: people come in and help us rebuild them at home,
Speaker 5: which was a wonderful thing. Something pretty funny happened with
Speaker 5: the first groups that came in. Before we could build
Speaker 5: the walls back up, we had to tear the sheeting
Speaker 5: off of the walls. So the first people that came in,
Speaker 5: we gave them sledgehammers. We'd send them into a room
Speaker 5: and they had to knock the walls down and we'd
Speaker 5: walk out of the room. We'd start hearing this laughter
Speaker 5: in the room while they were knocking the walls down,
Speaker 5: because you know what, if you got a sledgehammer, you
Speaker 5: need to just swing it and knock something down. It's
Speaker 5: sort of fun. And Shandala and I would walk back
Speaker 5: in the room and they'd look all sad again because
Speaker 5: it was our house after all. And then we walked
Speaker 5: back out and they just start swinging away again. It's
Speaker 5: fun to tear things down. And sometimes with our words
Speaker 5: it's like a sledgehammer. No planning, no thinking, We just
Speaker 5: swing away, and then all of a sudden we look
Speaker 5: around and all we've got is we've got a pile
Speaker 5: of rubble around us, relational rubble, because when you just
Speaker 5: swing away with your words and just tear people down
Speaker 5: with your words, inevitably, inevitably, your relationships are gonna suffer
Speaker 5: from that. Words are this single most important tool given
Speaker 5: to man by God, without a doubt, without a doubt.
Speaker 5: Back in the Book of Genesis in the Bible, the
Speaker 5: Bible tells us that a place called Babbel, they were
Speaker 5: trying to build a tower to reach as high as heaven.
Speaker 5: We're getting pretty prideful about it. So God wanted to
Speaker 5: stop the project. To stop the project. He didn't take
Speaker 5: away their hammers of their saws. He took away their words,
Speaker 5: their ability to communicate. Because there's such an incredibly important
Speaker 5: tool that God's given us. One of the reasons that
Speaker 5: we're not constructive with our words is we don't realize
Speaker 5: how how powerful this tool is. Our mouth, the words
Speaker 5: that God has given to us. We say things without thinking,
Speaker 5: and people remember them. You do the things that people
Speaker 5: have said to you in.
Speaker 3: A thoughtless way.
Speaker 5: It may have been as far back as grade school
Speaker 5: or college, or when you first started work. You still
Speaker 5: remember some of those things. That's how powerful words are.
Speaker 5: So when it comes to your mouth, think of it
Speaker 5: as a power tool and be very careful with it.
Speaker 5: I went out in my garage yesterday and I have
Speaker 5: this manual for a power tool, a power saw, and
Speaker 5: I was reading through the directions for the use of
Speaker 5: this power tool, and I was struck by how it
Speaker 5: related to the use of this other power tool that
Speaker 5: God's given us, our mouth. See if you think some
Speaker 5: of them relate to our mouth too. Number one, know
Speaker 5: your power tool. Number two keep guards in place. That's
Speaker 5: a good one. Number three, keep be careful around children,
Speaker 5: store idle tools when not in use, don't overreach, and
Speaker 5: my favorite, never use in an explosive atmosphere. That fits
Speaker 5: with how we use this mouth, which is an incredible
Speaker 5: tool to build people up. So how can I start
Speaker 5: using it more carefully? How can I if I got
Speaker 5: a power tool, how can I use it more carefully?
Speaker 5: So instead of destroying with it, I'm building and constructing
Speaker 5: relationships with it. Well, I got to stop excusing, Stop
Speaker 5: saying that I didn't really mean to say that, or
Speaker 5: stop saying it was just that blood sugar dip right
Speaker 5: before lunch.
Speaker 3: That's all that it really was.
Speaker 5: Stop it excusing and realize what you say really is
Speaker 5: impacting everybody around you.
Speaker 3: I've got to talk less.
Speaker 5: If it's a power tool, you don't have to use
Speaker 5: it as much so I can talk less. One of
Speaker 5: the reasons we get in trouble, wudn't you admit, is
Speaker 5: we just talk too much. Sometimes we talk before we think.
Speaker 5: Got to talk less, and I've got to listen more.
Speaker 5: When I listen more, I can understand people's needs. I
Speaker 5: was talking to Shandell, my wife, on the phone yesterday,
Speaker 5: and she was on the car phone and as usual,
Speaker 5: about halfway through it dropped out, so the phone rang
Speaker 5: again right away and knew it was her and clicked
Speaker 5: on and said, hi, babe. Doug Field said, I've been
Speaker 5: waiting seven years for you to say that to me,
Speaker 5: is what he said. I said, You're gonna have to
Speaker 5: wait another seven years, is what I told him. I
Speaker 5: learned a little lesson once again, listen before you talk.
Speaker 5: It's one of the small lessons of life that makes
Speaker 5: incredible impact in the way that you and I use
Speaker 5: our words. So stop excusing, talk lesson, listen more, and
Speaker 5: through all of that, start building. Think first of all,
Speaker 5: what do they need? How can I use a word
Speaker 5: of encouragement to build them up? How can I use
Speaker 5: a word of challenge to make a difference in their life?
Speaker 5: How can I use my words to build the people
Speaker 5: that I love the most.
Speaker 2: The fourth key to connecting is to be candid, to
Speaker 2: be candid about the problems in the relationship. In other words,
Speaker 2: you have to be open, You have to be honest,
Speaker 2: you you have to be frank. Proverbs twenty four to
Speaker 2: twenty six says an honest answer is the sign of
Speaker 2: a true friendship.
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Speaker 1: desire more of God? He desires more of you. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you this, how's your relationship with God right now?
Speaker 1: Maybe you're walking closely with Him and you feel energized
Speaker 1: and alive, or maybe you just feel disconnected, like you're
Speaker 1: going through the motions. Pastor Rick says, if you want
Speaker 1: to stay connected and even deepen your relationship with God,
Speaker 1: you need to be intentional. That's why every year Pastor
Speaker 1: Rick personally goes through a spiritual renewal study, and now
Speaker 1: he's made that very same study available to you. It's
Speaker 1: called Going Deeper with God, a personal renewal retreat. In
Speaker 1: this very special resource, Pastor Rick will personally lead you
Speaker 1: on a spiritual journey that brings you closer to God. Together,
Speaker 1: you'll go through a series of audio lessons after each session,
Speaker 1: and you'll take a little time to reflect and complete
Speaker 1: exercises in the Companion Workbook. Through this retreat, you'll experience
Speaker 1: a renewal of life within you. God will restore your joy.
Speaker 1: As he renews, refreshes, reinvigorates, and revives your spiritual life.
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