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• "What do you think?"

Acquaintance = someone I                     

Friendship = when two people bring out all their                                     and it's "           ."

When No One is Looking, We know ...

• We aren't as                                     as we pretend

• Sometimes the                      is                     

•                                                        is                     , even in a crowd

• Friends can't always fix our issues -- they're in the                                          

God's Friendship Option -- It Always Works

• You can't pick this friend -- He                           you

  You didn't choose me, remember, I chose you.
  John 15:15 (Message)

• He provided a way for you to be his friend -- the                          

  Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
  John 15:13

  God is one side and all people are on the other side, and Christ Jesus is between them to bring them together, by giving his life all mankind.
  1 Timothy 2:5 (Living Bible)

  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
  John 3:16

• Jesus won't go away -- you can                           on Him

  "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."
  Hebrews 13:5

  I don't leave you the way you're used to being left -- feeling, abandoned, bereft. So don't be upset. Don't be distraught.
  John 14:27 (Message)

Jesus' Friends have:

Jesus' Friends Hangout Together -- The Church

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• A place to be                     

• A place where                 matter and where                                matter to you.

"There's nothing like the local church, when the local church is working right!"

Receive Jesus' invitation to become his friend!