Comments on: Celebrating the Resurrection: A Story of True Friendship http://www.chrispalle.com/2008/03/21/celebrating-the-resurection-a-story-of-true-friendship/ Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: chrispy http://www.chrispalle.com/2008/03/21/celebrating-the-resurection-a-story-of-true-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-152 chrispy Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:20:54 +0000 http://www.chrispalle.com/?p=94#comment-152 Thanks for sharing, John. This is exactly what I am getting at. This is where most folks who don't know Him are missing the point. And sadly, there are also many people who do know Him, but don't know that they are worthy of His friendship. My hope is that people who don't know that He wants to be their friend come across this page think twice about the relationship they can have with a loving, personal God. Thanks for sharing, John. This is exactly what I am getting at. This is where most folks who don’t know Him are missing the point. And sadly, there are also many people who do know Him, but don’t know that they are worthy of His friendship. My hope is that people who don’t know that He wants to be their friend come across this page think twice about the relationship they can have with a loving, personal God.

]]> By: John Stansbury http://www.chrispalle.com/2008/03/21/celebrating-the-resurection-a-story-of-true-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-149 John Stansbury Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:37:49 +0000 http://www.chrispalle.com/?p=94#comment-149 You know, it’s funny how we call people we know only from social networks ‘friends.’ I have dozens of Internet Friends, and I’ve only ever talked to three of them. In English, we just don’t have the accurate words to fully describe our relationships. I was thinking about this as I was doing my devotional this morning. Jesus referred to His relationship with us as more than just ‘friends’: <blockquote>“I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.” <cite>Jn 15:15 HCSB</cite></blockquote> In this instance, Jesus meant something closer than one of your Followers on Twitter. He meant that He was willing to die for any of them now, and He shared all his plans with them. How many people would die for their subscribers on YouTube? And, personally, I am of the opinion that if there is no English word for something, we should just continue using the word from the original language (e.g. schadenfreude). You know, it’s funny how we call people we know only from social networks ‘friends.’ I have dozens of Internet Friends, and I’ve only ever talked to three of them. In English, we just don’t have the accurate words to fully describe our relationships. I was thinking about this as I was doing my devotional this morning. Jesus referred to His relationship with us as more than just ‘friends’:

“I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.” Jn 15:15 HCSB

In this instance, Jesus meant something closer than one of your Followers on Twitter. He meant that He was willing to die for any of them now, and He shared all his plans with them. How many people would die for their subscribers on YouTube?

And, personally, I am of the opinion that if there is no English word for something, we should just continue using the word from the original language (e.g. schadenfreude).

]]> By: chrispy http://www.chrispalle.com/2008/03/21/celebrating-the-resurection-a-story-of-true-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-146 chrispy Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:31:20 +0000 http://www.chrispalle.com/?p=94#comment-146 Hey there, Luke. Thanks for the compliment. Nice work with Covenant Eyes, btw. I have quite a few friends who use the software to good effect. Keep it up! Feel free to stop by and comment anytime. I'm going to take the "rel=nofollow" off your link. Hey there, Luke. Thanks for the compliment. Nice work with Covenant Eyes, btw. I have quite a few friends who use the software to good effect. Keep it up! Feel free to stop by and comment anytime. I’m going to take the “rel=nofollow” off your link.

]]> By: Luke Gilkerson http://www.chrispalle.com/2008/03/21/celebrating-the-resurection-a-story-of-true-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Luke Gilkerson Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:50:22 +0000 http://www.chrispalle.com/?p=94#comment-138 I liked your comments about how social networking has started to redefine our culture's idea of friendship. Luke Gilkerson Internet Community Manager Covenant Eyes www.covenanteyes.com "I have made a covenant with my eyes" (Job 31:1) I liked your comments about how social networking has started to redefine our culture’s idea of friendship.

Luke Gilkerson
Internet Community Manager
Covenant Eyes
http://www.covenanteyes.com
“I have made a covenant with my eyes” (Job 31:1)

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