Are you good at conversation? I guess many of us feel like we struggle to build new relationships, we know we should go introduce ourselves to others but how do we actually do it?
The first thing is to genuinely care about people, I need to pray and ask God through his Spirit and for the glory of his Son to enable me to love and see people as he sees them not as I see them. I also need to pray that he will remind me that rejection is not failure, refusing to try to build relationships is.
Everyday we are surrounded by people we could build relationships with. The person who is always on the same bus as us, the lady who always serves us in the paper shop, why not ask them how their day was? begin building a bridge. The neighbour who walks the same way we do to pick up his or her kids from school, why not head out the same time and ask how the weekend was? Or how school is going? Just show that you are interested and genuinely listen to their responses.
It is interesting in reading the gospels you notice that Jesus uses a lot of questions with people to engage them in dialogue, in fact at times you wonder if they wished he would just give them a straight answer, after all he already knew it. But Jesus questions, I think, to build relationships.
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