Pastor Zach Zehnder and his family, (Allison and Nathan) moved here to Central Florida this week. He will be working in Lake County to establish a new area for HCLM there. Zach was in the office for the first time today and a couple of us took him to lunch and we let him know that as "The New Guy" he was expected to pray for the meal.
Thinking of him as the new guy reminded me that it has been a long time since I was the "New Guy" anywhere. They are here and do not know, people, the community, or even the church. They do not have family here (feel free to have them over for dinner) and do not even know where to find the best resteraunt or the grocery store. I realized just how much the relationships that I have mean to me.
Almost everything that we do and are is determined by the relationships that we have. We can not go through life as "the new guy" we all need relationships. The people that we are close to are able to encourage us and strengthen us and sometimes even able to push us to do better. The success that I have had in my life is directly atributable to the relationships that I have. More often than we would like to admit, we succeed because of the "who we know" rather than "what we know".
The trouble is that having relationships takes time and effort. We have to be willing to put ourselves out for someone else, we have to spend time getting to know them and help them when they are in need. It is interesting that we are willing to spend time exercising, dieting, and even studying to make ourselves better but we don't have time for other people. Building and developing relationships is just as important to who we will be as any of the other things that we can do in our life.
As we begin the summer months, why not resolve to spend some of you time deepening old relationships and developing some new ones. I know that this will be time well spent.
in Christ,
Paul Hoyer
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