Good evening and welcome to the porch. I'm here to guide you on your journey through the complex world of relationships. Can we cue some music please? From our friendships to our romantic endeavors, we'll explore our family bonds,

estranged relationships, work dynamics, and perhaps even the relationship with oneself.

So how do we relate? To answer this, we'll look to

scripture and find exactly what God has to say about our relationships. This is

after all, the relationship series.

All right, Porch, how we doing?

We doing okay tonight?

Man, it's good to see y'all.

Gosh, you know, we were talking about this as a team. It's actually a frequent point of conversation

but we realize like on Tuesday nights or whatever night it is that you may be

possibly streaming this at a later time, you could do anything else,

and yet you chose to show up here.

Which one leads me to just say, thanks, like we're really grateful that you would choose to

trust us with your evening but also here's what I want you to know maybe this is

like rhythmic for you it's habit like you always come to the porch you show up

with your friends you sit in the same

seats but maybe this is a new thing for you anybody here for the first time

tonight welcome you know it's great to have you in this face but what you need to

know regardless of whether it's your first time,

you're here all the time, is we genuinely believe

that God knew you'd be here.

And God has something very specifically

...