The Spiritual Discipline of Friendship (Two-Part Sermon Series)
This two-part sermon series, "The Spiritual Discipline of Friendship," emphasizes the critical role of friendship in our spiritual growth. In the first sermon, I address why we are bad being friends, and in the second sermon, how to be a good friend. The series is rooted in Jesus’ words in John 15: 12-17 and brought to life through many stories and lessons in friendship found at Do For One.
John 15: 12-17 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.