What a Real Friend Looks Like
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What a Real Friend Looks Like

B1IntermediateOctober 2, 20262 min
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  • Relationships & psychology

Jesus didn't call his disciples employees. He called them friends. And the way he defined friendship — honesty, vulnerability, sharing the deepest things — is completely different from what most of us settle for.

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We call that normal, but it's not.

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All these surface-level relationships hide how isolated we are because

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Most of us have dozens of acquaintances and zero friends. We call that normal, but it's not. It's actually another thing driving your loneliness. All these surface-level relationships hide how isolated we are because

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we're around a lot of people, but if you don't have a single person in your life who knows the worst thing about you and who loves you anyway, then you are missing out on the gift of a true friend. So, let me show you how we can start building real friendships in our lives through the

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words of Jesus in John 15, 15. Here he tells his closest followers, "'I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn't confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.'"

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