You're going to. In touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley,

reaching the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Next on in touch, thinking through your friendships. The Lord has a plan for every single one of our lives and part of that plan is

he has friendships for each of us because he does not want us to live the life of

like an island all by ourselves and many people have trusted Jesus Christ as their personal and savior as a result of a friend who introduced them to Jesus.

Many people will tell you that go into the most difficult time of their life.

It was their friend who helped them through it.

The other people who will tell you, I had a friend,

but I don't know what happened to that friendship. Friends are treasures. They are gifts from

God. And if you have a true genuine friend, you should be very grateful. When I try to think about what a true friend

is like, I think about something I read many years ago. I don't know who wrote it, but I copied

it down that came to my mind the other day.

I thought, well, this is the kind of friend I'd like to be.

This is the kind of friend I'd like to have.

And so I want to share that with you and I'm going

to put it up line by line on the screen so you can copy it down but I want you to

copy it for this reason.

I think it's the kind of friends you'd like to have

and I'm sure it's the kind of friend you'd like to be.

So let's look at it.

A treasure. One who loves you as you are, no matter what's

going on. One who sees not only who you are, but who you can become. One who is there to

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