Friends and Companions

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🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Friendship is the lost art of Christian marriage. There isn’t a greater love than someone laying down their life for a friend. In John 15, Christ gives us a unique command, calls us to a new kind of relationship, and demonstrates the greatest form of love.

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0:00.0	You're listening to audio from the Village Church.
0:02.4	If you'd like to check out more resources or give to our ministry,
0:05.7	please visit us at the Villagechurch.net. Oh, Good morning. My name is Rick Wensitz. My wife, Chris and I have been members of this church for three years now. I serve on the Connections team as an usher and I'm
0:55.1	blessed to serve with my wife in Little Village where we have the awesome
0:58.8	responsibility of teaching and nurturing your precious four-year-olds.
1:04.2	In addition, my wife and I, we open our home
1:07.4	as host to a parent support group
1:10.6	that is a result of the last four semesters in a recovery ministry class.
1:16.0	Our lesson today comes from John 15 verses 12 through 17.
1:22.0	This is my command. Love one another as I have loved you. No one has
1:29.3	greater love than this to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I
1:36.3	command you. I do not call you servants anymore because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing.
1:44.0	I have called you friends because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my father.
1:51.0	You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce
1:57.6	fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the father in my name he will give you.
2:05.0	This is what I command you.
2:07.0	Love one another.
2:09.0	This is the word of the Lord.
2:10.0	Thanks to God. Hey guys, Pastor Matt here, man, do I have a gift for you today. My good friend, J.T. English is back.
2:21.0	J.T. was with us for several years,
2:23.2	actually was the key architect
2:25.2	at bringing theological education right
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