What Makes a REAL Friend Radical Spiritual Friendship

What Makes a REAL Friend Radical Spiritual Friendship TNT 2006

What makes someone a good friend? TNT 2006

What do you like best about your BFF? “My best-friend Alicia is the best because I can trust her with my life! She's always there for me and I can talk to her about anything. She's really good for advice. ” --Ashley “I can tell my best-friend anything and she always helps me when I am sad!” --Rachel “The thing I like most about my best-friend is that she is really nice to me all the time. ” --Amber “I have two best-friends and they stick with me all the time. ” --Sara TNT 2006

What do you like best about your best-friend? “My best-friend Alicia is the best because I can trust her with my life! She's always there for me and I can talk to her about anything. She's really good for advice. ” --Ashley “I can tell my best-friend anything and she always helps me when I am sad!” --Rachel “The thing I like most about my best-friend is that she is really nice to me all the time. ” --Amber “I have two best-friends and they stick with me all the time. ” --Sara TNT 2006

Friends Serve Me! • How can I get people to like me? • How can I get what I want from my friends? • How can I convince my friends that I am right? FRIENDSHIP IS ABOUT ME!! TNT 2006

NO, IT’S NOT! • Friendship is about BEING a good friend! • Learn how to GIVE to others – You meet their needs – Care for them (no matter what) – A whole life of loving people TNT 2006

Radical Spiritual Friendship • God commands us to love others. . . – we can because of Jesus • 1 John 4: 19 • John 5: 12 -14 TNT 2006

Jonathan + David • Friendship based on commitment to God – David trusted God – killed Goliath – Jon trusted God – killed 20 soldiers + drove away an entire army – 1 Samuel 18: 1 -4 • Let nothing come between them • Drew closer when tested (1 Samuel 20: 31 -34) • Friends ‘til end (1 Samuel 20: 42) TNT 2006

Learning to Love • It’s a PROCESS! – Are you willing to put your friend first? • Prov 27: 6 – “faithful are wounds of a friend” – Are you willing to bear your friends burdens? • Gal 6: 2 “bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ. ” – If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them (John 13: 17) TNT 2006