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I'm gonna open a can of worms with this thread but I don't care...lol. I'm willing to be criticized and misunderstood.
In the music world, you can be the best piano player, guitar.... etc player in the world, but if you are a terrible "hang," i.e; uncomfortable, awkward, annoying, arrogant, selfish, smelly....you are not gonna get gigs....at least not for long. Even though you are there to play music, it accounts for only a fraction of the time that you are just "with" people, hanging out. Nobody wants to hang out with someone who is constantly thinking about their own interpretations or desires in life. It's about a give and take. Close bonds are made by time and SHARED experiences.
In my view....so it is with friendships within the body of Christ. God created us for relationship with Him and with each other. We are created to have an abundant life...which in my view....abundance means being connected with people in shared interests, activities, conversation etc. If a person spends their entire time quoting scripture and trying to prove some lofty spiritual concept or how spiritual they are....they are soon gonna find themselves by themselves and that is really sad.
God is concerned with how well we love, how well we "hang" with the people in our circle. Not with how high of score we get in proving our spiritual points.
In the music world, you can be the best piano player, guitar.... etc player in the world, but if you are a terrible "hang," i.e; uncomfortable, awkward, annoying, arrogant, selfish, smelly....you are not gonna get gigs....at least not for long. Even though you are there to play music, it accounts for only a fraction of the time that you are just "with" people, hanging out. Nobody wants to hang out with someone who is constantly thinking about their own interpretations or desires in life. It's about a give and take. Close bonds are made by time and SHARED experiences.
In my view....so it is with friendships within the body of Christ. God created us for relationship with Him and with each other. We are created to have an abundant life...which in my view....abundance means being connected with people in shared interests, activities, conversation etc. If a person spends their entire time quoting scripture and trying to prove some lofty spiritual concept or how spiritual they are....they are soon gonna find themselves by themselves and that is really sad.
God is concerned with how well we love, how well we "hang" with the people in our circle. Not with how high of score we get in proving our spiritual points.