Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion | Kelly Needham | Ep. 106
Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly
Haley Williams
4.5 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
As Christians, we know friendship matters. Go to any Christian book store and you’ll find myriads of books on the importance of community. But while most people are convinced of their need for Christian friendships, they are often confused about the problems and disappointment they experience.
What’s responsible for this confusion? For too many people, their friendships are very worldly. Following Jesus may have changed the activities of friendship, but the DNA of how and why they practice friendship remains untouched. These relationships may look good, but underneath, they’re merely friend-ish.
In this conversation Kelly and I discuss what true biblical friendship really looks like and how we can be better friends to one another.
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| 0:30.1 | Welcome to Kindled Podcast. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm your host, Haley Williams, and this is the show where we talk about truth and grace |
| 0:36.9 | boldly. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:40.6 | Well, hey, guys, it is episode one of six, and today I'm going to be talking with my friend |
| 0:46.1 | Kelly Needham about friendship. Friendship is such a good gift. It's beautiful and God-given. |
| 0:53.1 | We need friends. So why do we experience such heartache |
| 0:57.4 | and hurt and pain around this topic as well? No doubt when I even say the word friendship, |
| 1:03.3 | you probably experience a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to that. You may feel happy as you think of your closest friends or sad as you're |
| 1:14.1 | reminded of a hole in your life and a desire for close friendships that you don't even have right now. |
| 1:19.6 | Maybe friends that you've lost, relationships that have been broken by sin or dishonesty or |
| 1:25.4 | rejection or abandonment. Friends who have hurt you, friends that you've hurt. |
| 1:30.2 | So I actually had this conversation with Kelly just late this past week, a few days before you |
| 1:36.2 | are hearing it air. And I decided to bump it up and have it air right now because we just got done with the holiday of Valentine's Day. |
| 1:47.4 | And while Valentine's Day does focus on romantic love, there's also in our culture kind of a push |
| 1:52.9 | to replace romantic love with friendships, where people are disillusioned with commitment and marriage |
| 1:58.2 | and romance. It kind of seems safer or more desirable to fill those |
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