Love One Another - How to Build Friendships that Last a Lifetime, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 28 March 2025
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Summary
Chip wraps up this series with a look at how to build friendships that can last a lifetime.
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
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| 0:00.0 | Life is most worth living when you live it for others. |
| 0:05.0 | But how do you do that? What's it look like? |
| 0:08.0 | We're going to learn how to become the kind of friend that you long to be |
| 0:13.0 | and how to build the kind of relationships that you long to have. |
| 0:22.0 | Thank you for being with us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:27.1 | Chip Ingram serves as our Bible teacher for this global teaching and discipleship ministry, |
| 0:31.7 | helping Christians develop an authentic faith. |
| 0:34.9 | Today we're wrapping up our series Love One Enough, |
| 0:37.8 | as Chip passionately tells us why it's possible |
| 0:40.5 | to forge and grow stable relationships. |
| 0:43.7 | Well, he has a lot to share, |
| 0:44.8 | so grab your notes and Bible as we join Chip |
| 0:47.1 | for the insightful remainder of his talk, |
| 0:49.3 | how to build friendships that last a lifetime. |
| 0:53.5 | Philippians 2, beginning at verse 5, the Apostle Paul writes, inspired by the Holy Spirit, |
| 0:57.7 | your attitude, believers, should be the same as that of Christ Jesus. |
| 1:03.1 | Well, what attitude are you talking about? |
| 1:04.8 | He describes it, verse 6, who being in very nature God did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, |
| 1:12.4 | but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness. |
| 1:18.7 | And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself, downwardly mobile, |
| 1:23.7 | and he became obedient to death, even death on a cross. |
| 1:30.5 | Jesus is going to teach. |
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