[Darris McNeely] We all know how big Facebook and social media is. Billions of people have Facebook pages, and on those pages people have thousands and thousands of friends. I have my own Facebook page. Lots of friends up there.

Here's a question: would Jesus Christ - would you have Him as your Facebook friend? Would you accept a friend request that would be from Jesus Christ? Think about that for a few minutes.

You know, I have quite a number of friends that I have befriended as they have requested this through the years. Most people I don't know. I will look at who it is, see if we have mutual friends, and very often just take them and accept that relationship through social media here, but I don't know them and I likely will never meet most people who are my friends, with whom I'm friends on Facebook. I sometimes think about this very humorously. They probably wouldn't want to sit down and have a meal with me, and maybe I wouldn't want to sit down and have a meal with them in reality. So the tag friendship on social media is an interesting one to think about.

I once knew an individual who had over 1,000 friends on Facebook. This individual hit a crisis in their life when they really needed a friend. You know how many people were at their side? About a hand full. Less than a handful I think, and that's it. Out of over 1,000 friends less than a handful were there in the flesh when this person really needed the support of friends. I remember that, and it's taught me a big lesson, and it should teach us that friendship has to go very deep, has to be very intimate and personal, and it comes back to the question of whether or not we would make Jesus Christ our friend on Facebook.

Let's think about that. How deep, how abiding, how intimate is that social relationship, that friendship that we have via social media? Is it really telling us something about the type of friendship we need to have and should have with Jesus Christ?

In John 15:15 Jesus on the night before He was crucified made the statement to His disciples, He said, "No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing, but I have called you friends for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you." Christ began to call them friends, and they had lived together, walked together, eaten together, suffered together for over three years at this point in time, and that friendship was going to become even deeper through a spiritual relationship of the Holy Spirit that they would later receive.

That's the type of friendship that I would want with Jesus Christ and with the Father. I think that it is the type of friendship we would want with God. Social media, Facebook doesn't necessarily connect me to that level of friendship with people. Oh, the pictures are nice and the comments are good and all, but it doesn't take me to the level of relationship of friendship that I want and need with Jesus Christ.

How about you? Would you make Jesus Christ your Facebook friend? Think about that.

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