You've got hundreds, even thousands of "friends" on social media. But who would you call at 3am if you were a little tipsy or if the bottom dropped out of everything in your life? Just because we have connection doesn't mean we have real relationships. That's what this sermon is about, as we look at how Jesus, as the only one who has ever gotten humanity right, approached friendships in his own life.

2. Connection ≠ Relationship

3. Connection ≠ Relationship
A man of many companions may come
to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks
closer than a brother.
– Proverbs 18:24

4. How Did Jesus Approach Friendship?

5. How Did Jesus Approach Friendship?
1) He committed himself to only a few.

6. And after six days Jesus took with him
Peter and James, and John his brother,
and led them up a high mountain by
themselves.
– Matthew 17:1

7. And he allowed no one to follow him
except Peter and James and John the
brother of James.
– Mark 5:37

8. And he took with him Peter and James and
John, and began to be greatly distressed
and troubled.
– Mark 14:33

9. If all you have in common with
someone is a shared belief in Jesus,
that’s not enough.

11. Who are your three?

12. How Did Jesus Approach Friendship?
1) He committed himself to only a few
2) He stuck with with his friends, even
when they failed him.

13. “And they all left him and fled.”
– Mark 14:50

14. Greater love has no one than this, that
someone lay down his life for his friends
- John 15:13