Relationship

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Paul Evanson. Relationship

Relationship. Paul Evanson and Dana Keller

Foreword

Introduction

Part 1: Living in Authentic Relationship

Chapter 1: The Meaning of Life

Chapter 2: Reprioritizing

Chapter 3: One Interaction at a Time

Chapter 4: It’s Not About You

Chapter 5: It’s All About You

Chapter 6: Summary of Part 1

Part 2: Relationship Applied

Chapter 7: The Power of Relationship by John Bateman

Chapter 8: Relationship Within Boundaries: Just Say No to Carpooling by Dana Keller

Chapter 9: Relationship in the Workplace: Lessons in Leadership from the Military by Mark Ammons

Chapter 10: Relationships in the Family of God by Casey Peterson

Chapter 11: Relationship and Addiction by Heather Larson

Part 3 - Pressing on: One Interaction at a Time

Chapter 12: How Will Care be Delivered? A Conversation with Steve Mason

Chapter 13: The Relational Church by Dave Browning

Afterthought: Being Loved

Acknowledgements

Contact Information

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You may not have time to read this book. With a million other things in life pulling our attentions this way and that—some of them quite real and valuable, like families, jobs, and health, and others maybe not so much—you may not have the time or energy for one more thing. Regardless of which direction or how many you’re being pulled in, it is true that you must choose to spend your time with the awareness and behaviors presented in this book.

Perhaps you already know that:

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In the third and final stage of starvation, however, a person becomes listless, apathetic and withdrawn as their body literally devours its own muscles and vital proteins. Paradoxically, as starvation increases the ability of the body to consume normal volumes of food decreases.

In much the same way, most of us are starving for connection with others yet outwardly appear to be calm, “together” and even happy despite our internal pain and discomfort. The ability to receive love becomes muted. It is only occasionally that someone is so completely starved for authentic relationship that we see their pain because their depression and anxiety have become debilitating. Many times their outward suffering makes us feel uncomfortable and instead of reaching out in an authentic way, we give advice like “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” or “just try to think more positively” or even “I’ll be praying for you” without taking the time to give them the real connection that they are starving for.

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