Summer is a time of friendships. The time away from school is a welcome break and provides the freedom to spend time with friends doing the things you enjoy. Friends will come and go but all will teach you something about who you are and who you want to be. But Jesus also calls us friends. So what does that teach us?

1. Christian
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Christ Calls Us
Friends
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2. Summer is a time of friendships.
The time away from school is a
welcome break and provides the
freedom to spend time with
friends doing the things you
enjoy. Friends will come and go
but all will teach you something
about who you are and who you
want to be. But Jesus also calls us
friends. So what does that teach
us?
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3. What to do
Place a tag/ sticker with each
name on the back of people as
they enter the meeting. Do not
tell them that these are pairs of
friends. Their task is to mingle
around asking “yes” or “no”
questions to discover the
character on the tag. After a brief
time of mingling have each
person find his or her “friend”
and share a quality they look for
in a friend!
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4. (The three stooges are
included in case you have an
odd number of people.) If the
group is small you might give
out only one of each pair and
then once everyone has
discovered his/her identity
have them name the friend
associated with the person on
the tag they have been given.
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5. Take It to the Next Level
Put the following questions up
on posters around the room –
taped to the walls or to the
floor. Have youth wander
around the room and to add
their thoughts and answers for
each question. Then discuss
them as a group!
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6. • A friend is…?
• Real Friends always…?
• Real Friends never…?
• One of my friends is ________
because…?
• What do you do to be a friend
and to have friends?
• What is one of the qualities
you look for in a friend?
• What is one of your best
qualities as a friend?
• What is one of the qualities
you look for in a friend?
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7. Take It Spiritual
John 15:13 calls us to look to the
interests of others for the sake
of the common good. Jesus’
whole life is an incarnation of
the ideal of friendship. What
Jesus teaches he is already
living. Jesus gave everything to
his friends—his knowledge of
God and his own life. Jesus is our
model for friendship—because
he loved without limits
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8. —and he makes it possible for
us to live a life of friendship—
because we have been
transformed by everything he
shared with us. Through
friendship we come to know
God and through friendship we
express the love of God. We can
risk being friends because Jesus
has been a friend to us.
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9. Make it Practical
• How can we be better
friends to those around us?
• How can we express the love
of God in our friendships?
Make it Personal
• What is something you will
do this week to be more
Christlike in your
friendships?
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10. Scripture
“This is my commandment, that
you love one another as I have
loved you. No one has greater love
than this, to lay down one’s life for
one’s friends. You are my friends if
you do what I command you. I do
not call you servants any longer,
because the servant does not
know what the master is doing;
but I have called you friends,
because I have made known to you
everything that I have heard from
my Father.” – John 15:12-15
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