Ptr. Marvin Gibson Jr.
UBC Manila
- Healthy relationships last, not all lasting relationships are healthy
- Healthy dependency happens between whole people.
You must know where you end and others begin… (Hands Illustration)- Whole people are fashioned by God through regeneration and spiritual maturity
- Whole people can distinguish between needs and wants
- Phil 4:19
- Eccl 1:8
- Take responsibility for your wholeness
- Note: The original sin was pursuing something they did not need – believing they would attain “something” which they already had.
- Genesis 3: Adam blamed the woman- Eve blamed the serpent!
- Healthy Dependency is characterized by…
- Allow people to have and own their emotions
- Knowing and living by the reality that you cannot change anyone but yourself by the power of God
- Healthy dependency happens between whole people.
- Applications:
- A good indicator of Healthy Independence in a person is how long they can live without being “in” a relationship
- An indicator of Unhealthy Dependence in a person is- not being satisfied in relationship(s)