Eternal Friendships, Part 1
Leading The Way Radio Podcast
Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef
4.9 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In today's fast-moving culture, loneliness is filling the hearts of millions. The inability to make friends and to keep friends has become a modern-day pandemic. Even many believers have friendships that are merely convenient, shallow, and temporary.
In Eternal Friendships, Michael Youssef's three-part teaching series, you'll see why friendships between believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are for eternity. Using examples from John, 1 Samuel, and Ruth, Dr. Youssef shows what it takes to begin and to maintain lasting friendships -- and the characteristics that make those friendships last forever. You'll learn how to affirm, to encourage, and to be loyal to one another -- and to cherish the eternal relationships you've established through Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef. |
| 0:04.6 | We pray that it will encourage you in your walk of faith. |
| 0:08.1 | If you would like to learn more about Dr. Youssef or leading the way, please visit |
| 0:12.8 | ltw.org. |
| 0:19.0 | I was thinking about how erroneously we think that loneliness is confined to those who are alone, |
| 0:30.2 | shut-ins, single people. But in reality, loneliness is far deeper than that. |
| 0:40.8 | Loneliness is far deeper than just being alone. |
| 0:45.7 | For you know and I know, there are some people who are alone, but they're not lonely. |
| 0:55.0 | And yet there are people who are surrounded by myriads of people, |
| 1:00.0 | and yet they are desperately lonely. |
| 1:02.0 | How can they be lonely? |
| 1:05.0 | Well, let me read to you what Thomas Woof, a famous writer and a famous person himself, let me read to you his |
| 1:13.9 | conclusion. He said, the whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness |
| 1:22.5 | is far from being a rare and curious phenomena peculiar to myself and few other solitary men. |
| 1:32.2 | It is inevitable fact of human existence. In a general sense, Thomas Wolf is right. In fact, he speaks for many in our culture today. In our fast-moving |
| 1:47.2 | society, we have found that loneliness is filling the hearts of millions. The inability to make |
| 1:55.5 | friends and keep friends has become a modern day pandemic. Even among believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who know |
| 2:05.8 | that their friendships is not temporary, that their friendships is for eternity, that their friendships |
| 2:11.7 | will continue forever. Many are finding that nurturing eternal friendships is a lost art. |
| 2:20.5 | Pride keeps believers from reaching out to other believers. |
| 2:24.7 | Self-sufficiency keeps believers from developing eternal friendships. |
| 2:30.5 | Other believers have fallen in this societal mode of developing convenient friendships, of developing temporary |
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