Love One Another - How to Build Friendships that Last a Lifetime, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
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Summary
Do you need a friend? In this message, Chip shows us, from God’s Word, how to build friendships that can last forever.
Main Points
“There is no limit to what God will do if we don’t care who gets the credit!”
I. Honoring others above ourselves is the “acid test” of how much we really love one another. --John 13:1-5; John 13:12-17
Key observations:
- Honoring others is motivated by love.
- Security in God’s plan allows us to choose downward mobility.
- Honoring others begins with humility.
- Position and power are stewardships for service.
- Real happiness comes when we make others shine, not hog the limelight.
Summary: Honoring others is enjoying and celebrating the worth, success, and accomplishments of others more than my own.
II. What does “honoring others” look like in your life?
Step 1: Evaluate
- When was the last time you honored someone above yourself?
- Do you compliment others sincerely?
- Do you enjoy the success of others?
- Can you let others be the center of attention?
- Can you allow others to get credit even when you had a major role?
- Do you feel bad, slighted, hurt, or angry when you work or service goes unnoticed?
- The Great paradox --Philippians 2:9-11
- The Awesome promise --Matthew 23:5-12
- The Timeless prayer --St Francis of Assisi
Conclusion: Many relationships start well, but few end well. Those who habitually honor others build friendships that last a lifetime.
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you lonely? Do you need a friend? Or better yet, do you need a friend that'll be there for a lifetime? |
| 0:08.7 | Join me today as I show you from God's Word how to build friendships that last forever. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:21.8 | The mission of this daily program is to intentionally disciple Christians through the insightful |
| 0:26.5 | Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:28.6 | We're nearing the end of his series, Love One Another. |
| 0:31.4 | We pray this teaching has motivated you to radically love the people in your life as Jesus did. |
| 0:37.2 | To help others learn as you have, would you take a minute after this message and share it with |
| 0:41.8 | them? |
| 0:42.8 | You can do that through the Chipping Gromath or by sending them the free MP3s that you'll |
| 0:47.0 | find at Living on the Edge.org. |
| 0:50.5 | You know, we all have those surface-level relationships, but what does it take to have deep, |
| 0:55.7 | meaningful friendships that can endure anything? Well, that's what Chip will help us understand today. |
| 1:01.2 | So go in your Bible to Romans chapter 12, beginning in verse 10, for Chip's message, how to build |
| 1:06.8 | friendships that last a lifetime. I was with a fellow and his wife. |
| 1:11.6 | He's 71. |
| 1:12.6 | Last year at this time, he looked just like you, healthy, well, doing great. |
| 1:17.6 | His hand was shaking just a little bit and got it checked out. |
| 1:20.6 | And I was with him and his wife Thursday. |
| 1:24.6 | He's on a ventilator, a respirator. He has a neurological disease similar to Luke Garrick disease, and he's on a ventilator, a respirator. |
| 1:27.8 | He has a neurological disease similar to Luke Garrick disease, and he's not expected to live |
| 1:32.2 | long at all. |
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