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Friendships are a complex thing to explain. What do they look like? Is sending a text message back and forth keeping a relationship, or is chatting over Facebook a valued friendship? Or is it how many friends I can get on facebook, does it really show how popular I am? Haha no. In America we are so techiquaoligiy advanced that we really don’t do very much in our relationships or value them. We think just sending a text to someone or sending them a message over facebook is good. A friendship should be more than that. We get so busy with our lives and so consumed with other things that we don’t give the people the time of day, or really don’t want to know them. When that starts happening, I find it very hard to hold a genuine relationship with someone. Don’t get my wrong, we all get busy, and people move. But if this is becoming a constant thing in your relationships you might want to change that… So lets unpack relationships with some stories from the bible.
We are so much like chicks from the chicken farm. Chicks are very social and form strong friendships. As soon as they hatch, they know right away who to stay with and who not to be with. Chicks are always in pairs, just like humans! And if you look in the bible, there is a great “pair” of friends, Jonathan and David. In (1&2 Samuel.)
God stood as a witness between the two (1 Samuel 20:42). Most significant was the spirituality of the friendship: Jonathan sought to give David strength in the Lord, not in their relationship (1 Samuel 23:16-18). Then in Ecclesiastes 4 it shows a model of what friends should do for one another.
(Eccles 4.7-12)
*4.9 – (a discussion of the reward of friendship) two are better than one
*4.10- (when one falls you lift them back up)
*4.11- (Bringing protection)
*4.12- (Spiritual presence)
“ Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.”
But spiritual friendship is not merely the enjoyment of another. It is companionship and mutual encouragement along the path of discipleship; it is friendship with Christ together. We should always be pointing each other to Christ.
not done yet!
Friendships are a complex thing to explain. What do they look like? Is sending a text message back and forth keeping a relationship, or is chatting over Facebook a valued friendship? Or is it how many friends I can get on facebook, does it really show how popular I am? Haha no. In America we are so techiquaoligiy advanced that we really don’t do very much in our relationships or value them. We think just sending a text to someone or sending them a message over facebook is good. A friendship should be more than that. We get so busy with our lives and so consumed with other things that we don’t give the people the time of day, or really don’t want to know them. When that starts happening, I find it very hard to hold a genuine relationship with someone. Don’t get my wrong, we all get busy, and people move. But if this is becoming a constant thing in your relationships you might want to change that… So lets unpack relationships with some stories from the bible.
We are so much like chicks from the chicken farm. Chicks are very social and form strong friendships. As soon as they hatch, they know right away who to stay with and who not to be with. Chicks are always in pairs, just like humans! And if you look in the bible, there is a great “pair” of friends, Jonathan and David. In (1&2 Samuel.)
God stood as a witness between the two (1 Samuel 20:42). Most significant was the spirituality of the friendship: Jonathan sought to give David strength in the Lord, not in their relationship (1 Samuel 23:16-18). Then in Ecclesiastes 4 it shows a model of what friends should do for one another.
(Eccles 4.7-12)
*4.9 – (a discussion of the reward of friendship) two are better than one
*4.10- (when one falls you lift them back up)
*4.11- (Bringing protection)
*4.12- (Spiritual presence)
“ Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.”
But spiritual friendship is not merely the enjoyment of another. It is companionship and mutual encouragement along the path of discipleship; it is friendship with Christ together. We should always be pointing each other to Christ.
not done yet!
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