Communities are made up of individual friendships. The health and potential for genuine love within the community is only as good as the interpersonal relationships within it. Paul in Romans 12 declares that a community should have genuine love as its overall goal. Paul then declares that genuine love requires that people love each other with mutual affection, outdoing one another in showing honor. “Outdoing one another in showing honor” simply means being willing to celebrate other’s successes. That sounds like it would be easy and we may even want to assert “of course I am happy for my friends when things are going well,” but if we are honest often it is easier for us to mourn with those who mourn, than to celebrate with those who celebrate. We spend a lot of time in churches talking about sitting with those who suffer, but we don’t always talk about what it takes to celebrate with others. In this weeks message Pastor Sarah shares how learning to celebrate with others will require us to- surrender the outcome of our relationships, have a mindset of abundance, have a deep understanding of our own giftedness and an ability to empathize with others.