Study of the Book of the congregation, Week of June 19 to 25, 2023, Lesson 48, Point 5, summary, review and "Propose this", Choose your friends well, Answers.

Study of the Book of the congregation, June 19-25, 2023, Lesson 48 point 5, summary, review and "Resolve this". Choose your friends well, Answers.

Congregation Bible study (30 min.): lff lesson 48 point 5, summary, review, and “Aim for this.”

5. How to make good friends

How do true friends help each other?

True friends help each other by always being present and treating you as you would yourself, with respect, humility and love. A good friend is one who shares their time with you and it is quality time, and when they are not together they continue to be great friends, with values.

Friendship is a necessary feeling for all of us and we must have an open mind because we can sow this friendship with people of all ages, races and cultures, where we least expect it we will have a true friend with whom we will be ourselves and we will be respected for our way of being, not because we want to please him.

In the brothers' previous comments we have seen that they must have a good friend, but let's not forget that we can be another person's good friend, and for this we also have to be aware of how we treat them. And it is that, it is more important to listen, to be empathetic than to try to highlight or impose ourselves as a monologue. This is not to be a good friend and we would not like our friend to treat us like this.

Do you have friends as good as those described in Proverbs? If not, what could I do to get them?

As Proverbs 18:24 rightly says, a good friend is a person who sticks more than a brother to the other person. That he always seeks his happiness and benefit and that he would never do anything to destroy him, this is the way a friend helps himself, being present and helping at all times.

The other text of proverbs quoted here chapter 27 and verse 17 tells us that as iron sharpens, so does a friend. Therefore, it teaches us that a good friend or a true friend is one who really brings us positive things in our lives and makes us better people.

Read Philippians 2:4 and discuss the following:

To have good friends, you must be a good friend. How could I achieve it?

Well, the text of Philippians is very clear in this regard, and it is that we cannot seek our own interests, but those of our friend. In other words, we have to treat ourselves as we would like to be treated, be empathetic people and put the happiness, security and benefit of our neighbor before ourselves.

ILLUSTRATION

Images of a young woman spending time with three good friends: 1. The young woman talking on the phone with one of them. 2. In the Kingdom Hall, the young woman talking with one of them, who is an older sister. 3. The young woman visiting one of them, who is grieving. To have good friends, you must be a good friend.

WHAT SOME SAY: “In order not to be alone, I stay with the friends I have”.

What do you think?

Perhaps the famous saying of better alone than in bad company comes to mind. But the truth is that we are never alone, because Jehovah is the best friend we can ever have. What's more, if we fully trust him, he will give us the friendship we need or are looking for at the right time and it will be a healthy friendship so we never have to be afraid of thinking that we will be alone, because we are not.

SUMMARY

When we choose our friends well, we win and bring joy to Jehovah.

Review

Why does Jehovah care what kind of friends we choose?

It's very simple, let's imagine several friends and now a friend of ours cares about us because of the friendship we have with another person and that is hurting us, that true friend because he cares about us, will tell us that we are changing and that we have problems . Well, in the same way, Jehovah sees us, and he worries that bad friendships can take us away from him and from the life that is right in his eyes.

What kind of friendships should we avoid?

We must avoid any friendship that does not bring us anything, that is, that does not build us up and, above all, that could pose a danger to our spiritual integrity because we could be losing our lives due to a bad friendship that only seeks its own interests even if it tries to convince otherwise.

How can you cultivate strong friendships with the right people?

As we saw in the video and read later in Philippians 2:4, we have to look out for the interests of others, just as we care for and pamper a plant while we water it and it grows, so is our friendship with others. A lasting friendship that is maintained over time because our small gestures and details are out of love and for others.