Friendship. Friendship is what we're talking about in this series that we're in.

Friendship is something that you can experience, but how do you define it?

We all know it when we feel it, but how do you define it?

Aristotle tried. Aristotle said when he was asked,

what is a friend? A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Interesting. Of course, theologically highly incorrect, but interesting.

But when you do, he's on a something, though, because when you do really encounter friendship in its fullest purist form,

it does feel like that. It feels like there's a soul connection.

In fact, that idea is thoroughly scriptural.

There's a great little passage when you want to read about the different relationships in life.

Deuteronomy 13 verse 6 is one of the few verses in the Bible that in one fell swoop,

let's us know about all sort of the different human relationships that are possible.

You know, of course, that there are four different Greek words for love,

and we only get the one English word, but all four have different words in the Greek.

There's a love for a family, a family love, right, Storge?

There's a love for your spouse, who you marry romantically, intimately.

That's Aeros. Then there's the love, of course, that God loves us with, a God-be-love,

sacrificial love, the highest, purest love. This is 1 Corinthians 13 love.

And then, finally, the least understood because it's the least necessary love is filet.

You couldn't be here if there wasn't some Storge. You have a family.

You, of course, have a need to, if our species is not to end,

Aeros is going to continue to be a thing, but so you couldn't be here without Aeros then as well.

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