Being a True Friend

CG Sermon
Thursday, 26 June 2008

The greatest Christian witness to the world is a Christian friend. Real friendships, however, are never accidental. They are made, developed, planned and cultivated.

There are two different kinds of friends, i.e. casual and close friends. Casual friends are the result of circumstances like you go to school, work together and live next door to each other. Close friends, on the contrary, are the result of choice. You can't be close friends with everybody so you have to be selective because then it will have a deep impact on your life. Therefore, we need to carefully select who we call our friends (Prov.12:26).


Selecting friends is just like selecting wine, huh?

Some people we need to avoid as close friends are:
1. Lazy people (Prov.15:19)
2. Angry people (Eccl.7:9)
3. Immoral people (1Cor.5:9)
4. Greedy people (Prov.1:10-19)
5. Unbelievers (2Cor.6:14)
Although the Bible says we are to love everyone but that does not make everyone our close friends.