FRIENDS LIKE THESE Proverbs 17:17. People aren’t looking for a friendly church. They are looking for friends.

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FRIENDS LIKE THESE Proverbs 17:17

People aren’t looking for a friendly church. They are looking for friends.

We have a generation of kids today who are experience rich and relationship poor. James Moore

1)Because no one wants to be like Jesus more than we do.

Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17

A)They call the best out of us and call us out on the worst.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, Proverbs 27:6

B)They provide a safe place to process life.

…and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend. 1 Chronicles 27:33

C)They make us more like Jesus.

…and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, Hebrews 10:24

2)Because no one wants the world to be like Jesus more than we do.

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. Colossians 4:12

3)Because of the friendship of Jesus.

Did You not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever? 2 Chronicles 20:7