TOTAL GOD FRIENDSHIP FRIENDSHIP John 15:9-17

- but whatever is it??

36 options … and the rest!

Affection Friendship (family love) (mates) Eros Charity (sexual love) (unselfish love)

“That devotion to people with whom you share no genes or romantic attachment, but who are so deeply entwined in your life, your hopes, your identity that it is almost impossible to imagine life without them.” MATTHEW SYED

“Love each other as I have loved you “Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead I have called you friends ….”

“I have called you friends …”

Friendship is (should be) …. WILLING: “You did not choose me!” (16) INTIMATE: “I have made known to you …” (15) GENEROUS: “ - to go and bear fruit” (16)

My Lord, I did not choose You,  for that could never be;  My heart would still refuse You,  had You not chosen me.  You took the sin that stained me,  You cleansed me, made me new;  for You, Lord, had ordained me  that I should live in You.  Unless Your grace had called me  and taught my opening mind,  the world would have enthralled me,  to heavenly glories blind.  My heart knows none above You;  for You I long, I thirst,  and know that if I love You,  Lord, You have loved me first. Co l oss I a n s 3 : 12 W I L L I N G

The perfect friend’s the one who knows the worst about you and loves you just the same!

“I have made known to you …” INTIMATE “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach an admonish one another” ‘Wounds from a friend can be trusted’ Proverbs 27:6 “I have made known to you …”

(Ephesians 4:28,29 Colossians 3:12-14) GENEROUS “ - to go and bear fruit” (Ephesians 4:28,29 Colossians 3:12-14)

ARE YOU A FRIEND LIKE THAT? WILLING INTIMATE GENEROUS Have you a friend like that? ARE YOU A FRIEND LIKE THAT? ‘Don’t look for a friend. Be one!’

FRIENDS