Feb 26, 2026 - MorningSpring IGNITE 2026: “Fully Alive…Together: Friendship” – Ryan Born скачать в хорошем качестве

Feb 26, 2026 - MorningSpring IGNITE 2026: “Fully Alive…Together: Friendship” – Ryan Born

Jesus has come to redeem and restore us into the full life he created us to live (John 10:10). But experiencing this fullness of life invites us not only to an individual pursuit of Christ through personal spiritual habits, but also radically reorients all of our most intense and intimate relationships in life. We are made for relationships, and yet our experience of friendship is thin, shallow, emaciated. We are surrounded by people but look at life through a screen. Research shows that loneliness is as deadly to our health as diabetes. But most of us don’t have a real understanding of friendship or what makes a good friend so Rryan Born of Seven Mile Road Church in Houston opened up God’s Word to show us. What is friendship? (Ecclesiastes 4:9–12) Friendship is moments of shared experience with a shared purpose that lead to shared life and joy. This passage’s word for joining is the same describing the curtains joined together in the tabernacle: friends are to come together in the same place and time being joined together for a shared purpose. In friendship our lives are woven together like the fabric of a curtain, and friendships will keep us from unravelling when the wear and tear of life threatens to undo us. Who is a worthy friend? (1Sa 18:1–5; 19:1–4; 20:11–17) Like Jonathan was for David, worthy friends (1) love when their friends succeed and give to see their success grow, (2) speak well of them and advocate for them, (3) will confront them privately to help wrestle with their sin, and (4) will sacrificially suffer alongside them when they could escape. Worthy friends love to be a footnote in other people’s stories. How do we experience friendship in full? We know friendship when we follow Jesus. Jesus' disciples were more likely to be enemies and rivals than friends when he first called them. But as they followed Jesus together, his love transformed them into friends. That is because it is Jesus’s love that gives us the power to pursue friendship because Jesus is the worthiest friend: Jesus stripped off his robe of glory and descended into the depths of brokenness caused by our sin to be with us and rescue us. Then he ascended and spoke well of us to his Father and advocated for us. In his victory he loves to see us succeed with him and he has woven us into his fellowship with his Father forever. Connect with Houston Christian University, today! - Admissions: https://HC.edu/Admissions - (281)-649-3211 Grad School: https://HC.edu/Grad - (281) -649-3269 HCU Online: https://HC.edu/online-learning or (1-855)-428-1960 Give: https://HC.edu/Giving or (281)-649-3222 - Schedule Your Visit, Today! - https://HC.edu/visit - Follow Us: Facebook:   / houstonchristianuniversity   Instagram:   / hcuofficial   - #DawgsUp