Series : Relationships, For Better or Worse Got Friends? It Shows!

Series:Relationships, For Better or Worse Got Friends? It Shows!

Got Friends? It Shows! • Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

Got Friends? It Shows! 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

Got Friends? It Shows! 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)

Got Friends? It Shows! When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey

Got Friends? It Shows! • In prosperity our friends know us; • in adversity we know our friends. • - Jay Leno (1950 - )

Got Friends? It Shows! 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

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

Got Friends? It Shows! • When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship. - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003

Got Friends? It Shows! 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

Got Friends? It Shows! 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

Got Friends? It Shows! • Friends may come and go, • but enemies accumulate. • - Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

Got Friends? It Shows! 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

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Got Friends? It Shows! 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.

Got Friends? It Shows! Christ felt friends are very important

Got Friends? It Shows! • Christ felt friends are very important • He recognized and commended their love for each other – 13

Got Friends? It Shows! • Christ felt friends are very important • He recognized and commended their love for each other – 13 • He recognized their actions for each other – 14

Got Friends? It Shows! • 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

Got Friends? It Shows! • 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 bringsreal friendship– 17

Got Friends? It Shows! • 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 bringsreal friendship– 17 • He recognized the closeness that showsreal friendship– 18-20

Got Friends? It Shows! • Christ felt friends are very important • 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.

Got Friends? It Shows! 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.

Got Friends? It Shows! Friends can be an encouraging influence Proverbs 27:17(NKJV) 17As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

Got Friends? It Shows! • 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;

Got Friends? It Shows! 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.

Got Friends? It Shows! • A friendly attitude… • Makes friends • Keeps friends • Builds friendships • Strengthens friendships • And IS friendship's greatest friend

Got Friends? It Shows! If you want to have friends do friendship.

Got Friends? It Shows! If we want a church that is right, doing good things, helping each other, then…

Got Friends? It Shows! • If we want a church that is right, doing good things, helping each other, then… • Cultivate friendships

Got Friends? It Shows! • If we want a church that is right, doing good things, helping each other, then… • Cultivate friendships • Let people have your friendship

Got Friends? It Shows! • If we want a church that is right, doing good things, helping each other, then… • Cultivate friendships • Let people have your friendship • Be friendly

Got Friends? It Shows! • If we want a church that is right, doing good things, helping each other, then… • Cultivate friendships • Let people have your friendship • Be friendly • Act friendly

Got Friends? It Shows! • If we want a church that is right, doing good things, helping each other, then… • Cultivate friendships • Let people have your friendship • Be friendly • Act friendly • Do friendly

Got Friends? It Shows! • If we want a church that is right, doing good things, helping each other, then… • Cultivate friendships • Let people have your friendship • Be friendly • Act friendly • Do friendly • BE A FRIEND

Got Friends? It Shows! The world desires and seeks friendship.

Got Friends? It Shows! "YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND." (in Jesus) It shows It really shows

Series : Relationships, For Better or Worse Got Friends? It Shows!

Series : Relationships, For Better or Worse Got Friends? It Shows!

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