Mosaic Community Church of Dayton Greg Williams

You are built for intimacy. Without intimacy with others and with
God, your heart does not get what it needs to be fully alive. In
this series we take a look at what is needed to build intimacy
into your relationships.



Part One: This is Us

In creating intimacy we need to move from a "you" and "me" and become an "us." Today we
talk about one of the biggest barriers in accomplishing this.

You are built for intimacy. Without intimacy with others and with
God, your heart does not get what it needs to be fully alive. In
this series we take a look at what is needed to build intimacy
into your relationships.



Part One: This is Me

We examine one key truth about intimacy, and one key skill in
building intimacy.

Is hope a good thing, or is hope a dangerous thing? Doesn’t hope
just set us up for disappointment? We take a look at The Shawshank
Redemption and find parallel’s to the Easter message about hope.

What does a normal meal look like? What is a normal night's sleep? How much
loneliness or sadness is it normal to have or tolerate on a daily basis? Whatever
is normal to you is invisible to you even if it is harming you. In this series
we talk about how to discover when we have normalized situations that prevent
us from thriving.



Part Three: Easy

Sometimes we think that finding normal and moving out of survival mode is
intensely difficult. Today we look at how God wants to make it easy.

What does a normal meal look like? What is a normal night's sleep? How much
loneliness or sadness is it normal to have or tolerate on a daily basis? Whatever
is normal to you is invisible to you even if it is harming you. In this series
we talk about how to discover when we have normalized situations that prevent
us from thriving.



Part Two: Your People Picker

If you want to move from surviving to thriving, you will need to examine your
people picker. Today we talk about a key biblical principle in choosing which
relationships will help us in finding normal.

What does a normal meal look like? What is a normal night's sleep? How much
loneliness or sadness is it normal to have or tolerate on a daily basis? Whatever
is normal to you is invisible to you even if it is harming you. In this series
we talk about how to discover when we have normalized situations that prevent
us from thriving.



Part One: Survival Mode

When we normalize situations that we were not meant to endure, we end up in
survival mode. Today we talk about all the different layers of normalization
that we need to watch out for in order to move from surviving to thriving.