Core Relationship Series

Relationships affect every aspect of life. Connecting with spouse and children, relating to friends and coworkers, maintaining focus on project team, or ministering love and grace to someone in need all require good relational skills. The quality of relationships largely determines the success of your life and ministry.

Where can you find the tools that will improve and enhance your everyday relationships? A deeper relationship with God and transformed relationships with friends and family, effective tools to powerfully minister God's truth and grace?

EMI's Relationship Series is a BANQUET of life-changing tools. This three-course series of practical, fun, interactive training can revolutionize your relationships.

LISTENING for HEAVEN'S SAKE, the first in the series, lays a skill foundation. Learning the skill of empathy maximizes your ability to communicate care and understanding.  It helps to overcome barriers in communication that lead to conflict, misunderstanding, impatience, and manipulation. These essential tools positively impact all relational and ministry contexts.

SPEAKING the TRUTH in LOVE.  Too often Christians settle for false community.  Think about it.  How do you safely get past the surface in relationships to the deeper heart? If you've taken Listening, it's important to continue the transformational skill process by experiencing Speaking.  Learn how to facilitate someone's journey into change, including how to set up appropriate goals, accountability, and confrontation.  Imagine a congregation walking genuinely and effectively together into relational wholeness.

* Listening for Heaven's Sake is a prerequisite for Speaking the Truth in Love.

RENEWING the MIND is essential for Christians seeking a practical way to change. Romans 12:2 "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is -- his good, pleasing and perfect will."  Participants learn ways to identify what is keeping them stuck in negative feelings or behaviors by bringing God's truth in to begin a transformation process.  Experience God's freedom through a small group community practice of a new skill.  It's powerful!

Wherever you are in your EMI equipping process, go beyond a taste of EMI. You can snack on only one course. The Lord has set a banquet before you in what EMI offers.  And these three courses are only the beginning!  We have Leadership Series and Advanced Series and other courses too!