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The Seven Life Relationships in The Mentor’s Foundation are a comprehensive over view of the key areas every person needs to become a mature individual in today’s world. Other areas, such as music, responsibility to the poor, or politics could be made a topic of “life relationships” that are important to master. But The Mentor’s Foundation is committed to the reality that great musicians, social workers, and politicians, as well as many other walks of life, must master the basics of The Seven Life Relationships if they are going to be stable and balanced individuals in the areas of their expertise.
God Relationships
God relationships include all those persons, including God himself, that we are related to as they relate to God Himself as a Creator of all creatures. God relationships, like all the other relationships listed below can be placed under “GOD” as a subset of maturing in our God relationships:
Theological Relationships [GOD]: What does the Bible and/or the history of healthy theology tell us about how to relate to God and others.
Psychological Relationships [MIND]: What does the Bible and/or the history of healthy psychology tell us about how to relate to God and others.
Physiological Relationships [BODY]: What does the Bible and/or the history of healthy physiology tell us about how to relate to God and others.
Sociological Relationships [PEOPLE]: What does the Bible and/or the history of healthy sociology tell us about how to relate to God and others.
Family System Relationships [FAMILY]: What does the Bible and/or the history of healthy family systems tell us about how to relate to God and others.
Vocational Relationships [WORK]: What does the Bible and/or the history of healthy vocational human resources tell us about how to relate to God and others.
Financial Relationships [MONEY]: What does the Bible and/or the history of healthy financial management tell us about how to relate to God and others.
No one has arrived or is perfect in any of these life relationships. So the mastery of each of them is a matter of healthy personal development over time using as many healthy resources as possible to develop self and others in a stable and balanced lifestyle with relationship to these major areas of life.
Each of these life relationships can have as their subsets of personal development the same 7 relationships listed above. The difference is the focus of introduction, education, application and reproduction. If God is the focus, then we concentrate on godliness as it relates to Mind, Body, People, Family, Work, and Money.
But if the Mind, Body, or People Skills are the focus, we now want to concentrate on God, Mind, Body, People, Family, Work and Money from a psychological point of view, or a physical point of view, or a social skills point of view. And we do the same thing with all of The Seven Life Relationships as we grow our lifestyle into a stable and balanced way of living upon The Mentor’s Foundation.
As those more balanced and stable than ourselves pour their lives in these areas into us, we grow in our introductions to elements of God, Mind, Body, People, Family, Work, and Money which we have never known growing up or attending school or in our prospective professions. As “iron sharpens iron” [Proverbs 27:17], people grow people into healthy, balanced and stable members of a lifestyle that has substance and lasting purpose over time.
These Seven Life Relationships can then be passed on to friends, relatives, and acquaintances for their benefit and personal development over time as well.
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