find a friend

Step #1: Tell the Truth

Step #2: Get Past the Past

Step #3: Make Your Cents Make Sense

Step #4: Build a New Dream

Step #5: Discover Discipline

Step #6: Step Outside Yourself

Step #7: Find a Friend

“A man of many companions may

come to ruin, but there is a friend

who sticks closer than a brother.”

-

Proverbs 18:24

Developing strong relationships is

part of what it means to be created

in the image of God, because the

essence of God is relationship.

“...according to the foreknowledge of God

the Father, in the sanctification of the

Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and

for sprinkling with his blood...”

- 1 Peter 1:2

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and

the love of God and the fellowship of the

Holy Spirit be with you all.”

- 2 Cor. 13:14

“This is my commandment, that you

love one another as I have loved

you. Greater love has no one than

this, that someone lay down his life

for his friends.”

-

John 15:12-13

GRACE is the foundation of

friendship!

How do we develop friendships

that will stick closer than a brother

or sister?

1) Don’t demand from a friend

what you can only get from

God.



or sister?

2) Know yourself if you expect

others to know you.

“Why do you see the speck that is in

your brother’s eye, but do not notice

the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or

how can you say to your brother, ‘Let

me take the speck out of your eye,’

when there is the log in your own

eye?

You hypocrite, first take the log out of

your own eye, and then you will see

clearly to take the speck out of your

brother’s eye.

- Matt. 7:3-5



or sister?

3) Learn to forgive... a lot!

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