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FamilyLife Today®

Missing: Friendship: Jared and Becky Wilson

FamilyLife Today®

FamilyLife Network

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Journals, Kids & Family, Christianity

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When did it become so hard to know how to do friendship with the people around us, despite all the options we have to connect? And how are we supposed to feel that close to a holy, perfect, and invisible God? Author Jared Wilson and his wife Becky believe...

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0:00.0

So I saw a study, boy it's been a decade, about American men.

0:05.0

Nine out of ten American men cannot name one true friend.

0:10.0

Would you say that's true?

0:11.0

Yes, I would.

0:12.0

I've seen that. I mean we have a lot of friends. Would you say that's true? Yes, I would.

0:12.9

I've seen that.

0:13.6

I mean, we have a lot of friends,

0:15.4

but they're not really friends.

0:16.2

I mean, they're acquaintances,

0:17.8

their work buddies, workout buddies, people at church,

0:21.3

but in terms of like a pretty close friendship like you had when you were

0:25.1

10 and 11, you know, where you want to hang every second with your best buddy, men don't do that well,

0:30.6

do women?

0:31.6

I think women are better than men. I think we're

0:34.5

probably lonelier than we have been especially since the pandemic but I do

0:39.8

think there's a crisis going on in our whole country with an epidemic of loneliness.

0:44.6

We're going to solve it today.

0:49.3

Welcome to Family Life Today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

0:57.0

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

1:00.0

You can find us at FamilyLife Today.com. This is family life today.

1:05.0

We got Jared C. Wilson in this studio, wrote a book about Jesus being our friend.

1:17.4

Jared, welcome back.

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