What You Need To Know About Biblical Friendship with Brianna Harris
Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis
Jonny Ardavanis
5 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Jonny Ardavanis is the Pastor of Stonebridge Bible Church in Franklin, Tennessee and hosts the podcast Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis. He is passionate about the Gospel and God’s Word and desires to see people understand and obey it.
Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis: Big Questions, Biblical Answers, is a series that seeks to provide biblical answers to some of the most prominent and fundamental questions regarding God, the Gospel, and the Bible.
In this episode, Jonny Ardavanis sits down with Brianna Harris, the Dean of Women at the Masters University, to discuss the reality of biblical friendships. Brie shares her insights on the importance of friendship, common pitfalls, and best practices from a biblical perspective.
Together they explore how friendships can sometimes become idols, the danger of self-centered relationships, and the need for intentionality in pointing each other towards Christ. Bri also touches on the balance between fun and godliness, the misconception of having to be friends with everyone, and the value of deep, meaningful connections.
Dial in as Jonny and Bri dive into these vital aspects of Christian community and learn how to navigate friendships with wisdom and grace.
Topics Covered:
- The importance of friendship in community
- Common pitfalls in friendships, such as idolizing friends and self-centeredness
- The need for intentional, Christ-centered relationships
- Practical ways to encourage and support friends in their faith
- Balancing fun and godliness in friendships
- The distinction between acquaintances and true friends
- The value of having a few deep, meaningful friendships over many superficial ones
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| 0:00.0 | Bree, thanks for sitting down. |
| 0:09.0 | Why don't you tell everybody what you do for a living and then we'll jump into our question for today. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, I work at the Masters University. I am the Dean of Women and a resident director. |
| 0:19.0 | Bree is one of my good friends, so it's awesome to be able to sit down with you. |
| 0:22.2 | Bree, I wanted to talk about the reality of biblical friendships. |
| 0:26.3 | Everybody lives life, hopefully, in some sense of community. |
| 0:28.6 | They have people around them. |
| 0:30.6 | Maybe just talk about the importance of friendship, even as you navigate your relationship |
| 0:35.2 | with the students that you work with at the Master's University. what are some good practices, what are some pitfalls of friendships, |
| 0:42.2 | what are some maybe habits or ideas that people fall into that they should be aware of |
| 0:47.3 | from a biblical perspective? Yeah, I'll start with pitfalls. I think one of the biggest things |
| 0:52.6 | that I see is that students or anyone can |
| 0:56.6 | look to their friendships for things that only God can give. And so they idolize them. They want |
| 1:02.2 | comfort in them. They look to them for stability. They look to them for identity to satisfy |
| 1:08.6 | them. And that can cause a lot of issues because then you have these expectations of people that |
| 1:14.3 | they can't meet. |
| 1:15.9 | And so they're always letting you down in that sense. |
| 1:18.6 | So I think that's a really big issue that I see. |
| 1:21.4 | Just in regards to maybe people looking to their friends as like maybe the Messiah of their |
| 1:24.8 | problems or... |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, I think there are different ways that it can come out. |
| 1:28.7 | And so I think if you are even just like, there are some people who are like, I have to have |
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