Downtown Community Church

Besides just the cheesiness of doing a relationship sermon on Valentine’s Day, this sermon was originally scheduled on another day so as not to rain on the parade of everyone. Yet, here it is. Because all humans are made in the image of God, it makes sense that it is easy for us to idolize another human. To start with the bottom line, relationships were never meant to be used for the fulfillment of our needs, they were always meant to compliment us.  However, when we look to the compliment to become our fulfillment it will always leave us in disappointment.  The reality is that when I need someone, I’m not really loving them for them. I am objectifying them in order to fulfill my own needs. We tend to make two mistakes on this front: either we feel incomplete and look to someone else to complete us, or we believe that we actually are complete and fulfilled in and of ourselves. The message of the gospel, however, tells us something entirely different. All of this is illustrated by the story of Jacob in Genesis