Healthy Friendships - Friends Forever

March 28 & 29 - Friends Forever "Friends stick with you until the end"

Core Scripture: Ruth 1:1-18

Memory Verse:
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers." 1 John 3:16 (NIV)

Discussion Questions:

• Why is it important for us to have friends forever? What real-life examples of this do you know of?
• How can you develop friendships that stick? What do you need to do in order to do this?
• What kind of friends are the kind that stick with you no matter what? Describe their qualities.
• Do you think your closest friends would describe you as a friend that sticks with them? Why or why not?
  
• Describe a time when a friend of yours stuck with you. What did/does that mean to you?
  

Bottom Line:

• While our friendships may take different forms and may be more intimate and closer at some times than others, if we vow to stick with our friends till the end, we really can be friends forever.
• Friendships do not have to end. But if a friendship is to survive change, both friends must be committed to making the friendship stick. This is the way friends stick with you till the end. Just imagine how much fuller these kinds of friends will make our lives! And the truth is that learning stickiness in our friendships will help us learn to stick to Christ in our relationship with Him.