QUESTION #1:  Do I APPRECIATE my friends?           vs.3-4

·  Be THANKFUL for friends

·  Be THOUGHTFUL of friends

·  Be THOROUGH with friends

QUESTION #2:  Do I SUPPORT my friends?                vs.5-6

·  Remember that we are on the SAME TEAM

·  Remember that we CHERISH, God CHANGES

QUESTION #3:  Do I LOVE my friends?                       vs.7-8

·  Love as RESPONSE, not as RESPONSIBILITY            2Cor. 5:14-15

Jesus in Action:

a)  Honest COMMUNICATION                John 15:12-15

b)  Authentic  INCLUSION                    Mark 2:15-16

c)  Humble COMMITMENT                    John 10:18;1 John 2:1

QUESTION #4: Do I CHALLENGE my friends?

9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11 filled
with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.

Reference Philippians 1:9-11