Spiritual Friendship

Do you find it hard to make friends? Do friendships feel like a lot of work? Or do friendships not factor much in your life? How as Christians do we engage with our various experiences of friendship?

This course hopes to give us a vision of friendship as God designed it and to help us process our struggles and misconceptions through a gospel lens. Join us as we behold friendship as a beautiful call for every Christian to radiate love grounded by the profound connection we share with our ultimate Friend, Christ.

Session One: Created for Connection What exactly is friendship? How is the importance of these relationships rooted in God’s biblical design? What happens when we under or overvalue this relationship? Why are deep relationships so challenging? Where do we place our hope in friendship?

Session Two: A Picture of True Friendship This session paints the picture of true friendship and what extending friendship can look like. In church we have a few words (fellowship, community, friend, family) we use for our relationships with each other, and we want to clarify what they mean. God’s design for friendship is for it to be Christ-centred, crucial, candid, close, and constant. Isn’t this offering love to one another? What can that look like broadly and narrowly within the church and beyond?

Session Three: Cultivating Connection This session gets practical by looking at how friendship with Christ impacts the way we experience friendship. How do we cultivate healthy friendships and at the same time manage our loneliness? What do we do with broken friendships or disappointments in friendships?