Good Friends
Friends love all the time. That’s Proverbs 17:17. Agape. They don’t have to want to be around you all the time to still be loving you. Agape.
Friends will help you become your full level of awesome. They won’t let you quit. Your mistake doesn’t offend or alienate them.
Until we teach a generation of believers how to skate past religion and love one another it will be miraculous if you are loved by 5 friends your whole life. That is going to change.
You can’t effectively engage with more than 20 people at the genuine friend level at one time – in a way that you know what is going on in their lives. Invest heavily in the ones you can reach. Teach them how to do it.
When the unbelievers see us loving each other it will be such a contrast to what they have seen in the past that they will turn aside to see why the bush burns.
They will take off their shoes and meet the Lord.