Do you have friends??

Tonight we had our zone meeting at Allan's place. We started off with a praise and somehow something was very different. Everyone was simply full of excitment and we were praising God at the top of our voices. We were so loud and vibrant that we drowned the music of the guitarist and it seemed as if we were leading the guitarist. Followed by praise, we went through some admin and Jeremy began to share a word....

Jeremy shared about the importance of establishing strong friendship among ourselves. It was very inline with what I had shared with my cell group last week after zone meeting. I asked my cell group a question, should one day this cell group no longer exist, will we still be calling up each other to chat up each other, will we be asking one another out for a drink, etc. To bring the question nearer, currently are we even calling each other up and meeting up with one another other than just twice a week because of cell group meeting and service? If not, the question are, do you have friends? Have you first been a friend to others?

Proverbs 18:24
A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.