Today we’re continuing our series Advancing the Kingdom of God as we focus on our relationships.  This series connects very well with our missional map: “Connecting you to Christ, in a caring community, that impacts the world.  One of the natural outcomes of our missional map is that the Kingdom of God will be advanced in our lives and in the lives of others and a natural place for us to focus on is in our relationships.  Our passage gives us many instructions for how we might advance the kingdom of God in our relationships and what’s interesting is that the responsibility, the possibility, and the opportunity rests with us.  It’s not dependent on the other person—it’s on us.  Let’s see what Paul has to say.