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As Pastor Mark Driscoll said, When your identity is rooted in Christ, you get to stop using people and start loving them. Primarily, expectations come from a heart that is not rooted in Christ. It's a heart that claims some allegiance to Christ, but in reality views that relationship as a math equation. God + the praise of men is what this heart longs for. It doesn't know the realities of being so rooted in Christ that they don't need other people in order to find fulfillment. It's hard for them to understand the realities of the fact that they are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. They have a hard time realizing that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to seperate them from the love of God because in their day to day lives, the love of God isn't enough for them.