(PART 1) FAMILIARITY: DON'T GET TOO CLOSE

CONTENT
♣ What is familiarity?
♣ Who can we be familiar with?
♣ Why we get familiar?
♣ The signs
♣ The effects of familiarity?
♣ How to deal and prevent it?

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house. Matthew13:57

It is an unpleasant behaviour that expresses itself in way you feel, what you say, what you do and what you think about somebody or something is without value and deserve no respect or consideration.

Familiarity Zone: Ask the wrong questions to belittle and bring someone on the same level as you are:
o Is this not the carpenter’s son?
o Is not His mother called Mary?
o And His brothers James, Jose, Simon and Judas?
o And His sisters, are they not all with us?
o Where then did this Man get all these things
o Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
o How is it the that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?

Don’t look at a man where he had been and what he has done in past, neither look at a man where he is now and what he is doing but at where he is going and things he does gear towards the future.