Friends are so important aren’t they.

I met up with Dennis and Sharron yesterday in Rolvenden, which is in the Weald of Kent, who have come to be good friends within YFC. I’m sure when we all leave we will be friends outside of YFC too. It was great to spend some quality time with them again.

I always love chatting with friends and just listening to what is going on in their lives at the moment. It’s great to see how God is working. All too often time in our western world is focussed and targetted. We are told we have to speak to so many people, sell so many products, give out so many flyers, reach whatever target. We are even starting to see this in Christian organisations which I admit does worry me a little.

I am a personal target driven person. If I have nothing to aim to do, invariably that is what I do – nothing. At the centre, underlying and surrounding that, however, is a confident conviction that targets are very very secondary to relationships.

Relationships, for me, is where it is at. Relationships is how we get things done, it is how we find value in both ourselves and in others and it is how we will instigate change in a world that needs change.

Targets are great, but lets not forget that they are very empty and pointless without relationships.