Go

Vineyard Community Church - West Philly

Learning to Be a Great Friend

Learning to be a great friend:

1.  Great friends are vulnerable.

2.  Great friends discover real needs.

3.  Great friends empower and partner with others.

Scripture:

Luke 10:1-9

 1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[a] others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. 2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. 3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. 4 Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.

   5 “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ 6If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. 7 Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

   8 “When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you. 9 Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’

Philippians 2:5-8

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

 6 Who, being in very nature God, 
   did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 
7 rather, he made himself nothing 
   by taking the very nature[b] of a servant, 
   being made in human likeness. 
8 And being found in appearance as a man, 
   he humbled himself 
   by becoming obedient to death— 
      even death on a cross!

Sources:

Conn, Harvie M., Ortiz, Manuel, Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City & the People of God, Downers Grove: IVP Academic © 2001

Guzik, David, Commentaries on Luke, studylight.org

Read More