Social Friendships

Social Friendships is the 4th area in experiencing life’s true way to prosper. We may think that this is only talking about friends we may know and family members or just a few people we met briefly. However, it involves much more than what we may think or say about this topic. I also find that there are other words related to this phrase which makes it more amazing and dynamic to have it a part of our daily lives.
Let me briefly bring to mind about the early Christian Church and Jesus’ followers. In the gospels we find many areas where Jesus from the beginning was with many of His followers even socializing with the sinners. So Jesus is still our first example of how we develop friendships with a variety of people that we come in contact, this is called Social Friendships.
Then we look at the early Church in Acts 2: 42, which says, “and they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayers.” As I have mentioned above there are other words related to Social Friendships. Here in this verse shows us how the early Christians "fellowshipped" with other people, shared God’s word, breaking of bread and prayers. Another word to associated with fellowship is the word Unity. Fellowship and Unity both go hand in hand in making new friends to socially grow healthy. So now that we know that this is not a new thing, God’s word shows us how vitally important it was back then as it is today to grow healthy in our social friendships circle by the examples of Jesus and the early Christians.
Now in today society we see a lot of what is called social networking, I believe, this is one of the newest ways to make new friends in a health way on the internet. However, we must not forget to continue to have physical bond with others in our community and in the society as well.
I truly believe many people today realize how important there social friendships are in their lives. But how important is our social friendships to include the one main person? Are we all including Jesus who is our main and vital source in every social part of our lives? I believe He is the one who really makes our social lifestyle dynamic. Since He is our light and life source, why not?
I would like to touch on the word Unity and how it relates to fellowship and social friendships. Unity in our social friendships which includes the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, together, gives our fellowship with other believers the power we need in our social lifestyle. Surely, we have heard it said that there is power in unity. This is absolutely true; when we get around other believers to fellowship it is awesome.
So in conclusion, to experience life’s true way to prosper with your social friendships circle, just remember to take Jesus and the power with you while socializing and fellowshipping with others and I’m certain your lifestyle will be fulfilling.
I would like to hear your comments and questions about this topic if you would like to share.