Welcome to Live Together
Live Together believes that relationships are at the heart of every interaction. Relationship with God and relationships with people define the human experience. Our desire is to help foster healthy relationships and empower you to have fulfilling human connections.
We understand that relationships are not uniform—each has its own strengths, weaknesses, and dynamics. However, despite the uniqueness of relationships, there are undeniable commonalities. We've found that people are often in a state of loving, losing, or longing when it comes to relationships. We call this the L3 Principle.
Loving
Everyone desires loving relationships – relationships that encourage, empower, and provide safety. Scripture is clear in its command to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30). God has expressed his love to us by creating us, sustaining us, and providing us with his Son. This is the most fulfilling loving relationship that we will ever experience. It is this loving relationship that allows and empowers us to follow the second greatest commandment, to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31).
Losing
The reality is, relationships are not always permanent. In this broken world we are confronted with the death of loved ones, painful breakups, and conflicts that lead to the ending of a relationship. Losing a relationship is traumatic. But we find hope in the fact that our only guaranteed permanent relationship is our relationship with Christ.
Longing
Losing and longing are close relatives. When a person loses a relationship, they often long for something to replace it (drugs, alcohol, sex, etc). The only person who can fill this void of longing however, is God himself. If we are intimately connected to our Creator, he will fill the longing void. God doesn’t abandon. He doesn’t stop loving. He doesn’t leave you desiring him without fulfilling that desire. Every longing is met in him.
In the midst of the ups and downs of loving, losing, and longing, we hope to remind you that our God is one who is near in every circumstance. We will use Scripture as the ultimate guide to relationships, in hopes that by engaging the Word we might be transformed by it—so that we can embody healthy relationships with ourselves, God, and the world. We pray that the tools, resources, and insight that we offer would help you to love God and love others.