No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
John 15:15
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
John 15:14
Christ in these words introduces to the world the new status of His followers, that will be until He returns. We are called His friends, stressing the intimacy and the closeness we have to the…
I have called you friends…
None of us lives beyond the need for friendship. God has created us with a need for intimacy and trust with others, the basic definition of friendship.
…to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles…
Galatians 1:16
Some of the hardest work anyone can do is to try and serve God without Christ first revealing Himself in his innermost life. God did not let Paul begin…