Counsels on Relationships

Counsel #1 — Basics For Peer Relationships

Picture: Counsel #1 — Basics for Peer Relationships CR 3.1

Relationships with your peers, whether they’re work colleagues, classmates, roommates, or best friends, are vitally important. These relationships surround you constantly, so navigating them with as much kindness, courtesy, and thoughtfulness as possible can be beneficial to both you and your peers. CR 3.2

Encourage them. Support them. Build them up. Healthy relationships thrive on genuinely expressed appreciation. Find something to affirm about your peers and cultivate your reputation as a positive, supportive friend.^[1] CR 3.3

“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.”
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV CR 3.4

“Our love for one another comes from our common connection to God. We are one family. We love one another as He loved us. This true friendship is different from the shallow courtesy of the world and the false show of two-faced friendship.” —Adapted from Ellen White’s Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1, p. 211. CR 3.5

Reflect: How are you positive, supportive, and encouraging to your peers? Would they describe you   with these words? CR 3.6