series: relationships, for better or worse got friends? it shows!

Series: Relationships, For Better or Worse

Got Friends? It Shows!


Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects


You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested

in other people than you can in two years by trying to

get other people interested in

you. - Czech Proverb


Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see

takes time, like to have a friend takes time. - George Washington (1732 - 1799)


When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey


In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

- Jay Leno (1950 - )


If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. - Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999


It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. - Madame de Tencin


When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship. - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003


You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to

love her. - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003


Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give,

such will cease to love. - Stephanie Barron,

Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996


Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)


I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends.

If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured

more than anything else in the world. - Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War


John 15:13-21(NKJV) 13Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

Got Friends? It Shows!17These things I command you, that you love one another. 18“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.


Christ felt friends are very important



He recognized and commended their love for each other – 13




He recognized their actions for each other – 14





He recognized the closeness real friendship brings – 15






He recognized the closeness that brings real friendship– 17






He recognized the closeness that brings real friendship– 17

He recognized the closeness that shows real friendship– 18-20



John 13:1(KJV) 1Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

John 11:5(KJV) 5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

John 11:35-36(KJV) 35Jesus wept. 36Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!

John 13:23(KJV) 23Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.


Friends can be closer than a brother

Proverbs 18:24(NKJV) 24 A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 27:10(NKJV) 10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.


Friends can be an encouraging influence

Proverbs 27:17(NKJV) 17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.


Friends help friends

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10(NKJV) 9 Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up.

Paul:2 Timothy 1:16(NKJV) 16The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;


Friends attract friends

Matthew 27:55-56(NKJV) 55And many women who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him, were there looking on from afar, 56among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.


A friendly attitude…

Makes friends

Keeps friends

Builds friendships

Strengthens friendships

And IS friendship's greatest friend


If you want to have friends do friendship.


If we want a church that is right, doing good things, helping each other, then…



Cultivate friendships




Let people have your friendship





Be friendly





Be friendly

Act friendly





Be friendly

Act friendly

Do friendly





Be friendly

Act friendly

Do friendly

BE A FRIEND


The world desires and

seeks friendship.


"YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND."

(in Jesus)

It shows

It really shows

series: relationships, for better or worse got friends? it shows!

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