{"id":5189,"date":"2020-01-15T12:36:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2020-01-15T12:36:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:36:43","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-january-19th-a-dying-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=5189","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday, January 19th: “A Dying Friendship”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All of us know the hurt of friendships turned south. We had been BFF\u2019s (Best Friends Forever), but the forever part proved to be short-lived. I submit to you that if we were to assess our many friendships we currently enjoy, then a more accurate acronym to capture these relationships would be BFC\u2019s, that we\u2019re Best Friends Currently.<\/p>\n

Not long after my wife, Mari, came to personal faith in Jesus, some of her BFF\u2019s began to pull away; these friendships started heading in a southerly direction. She was wounded; and no matter how doggedly she tried to preserve these people in her life, they kept withdrawing. She felt betrayed; for whom she had presumed were her BFF\u2019s, had actually been her BFC\u2019s. Mari experienced a few very painful dying friendships \u2013 close relationships that turned south.<\/p>\n

My wife experienced another dying friendship, but this one turned north. \u201cSay what?\u201d Well, this friendship, unlike all her others, didn\u2019t start out as a BFF; Mari didn\u2019t even know this other to-be-friend. She had heard of Him \u2013 and had even given Him token acknowledgment most Sundays, especially on His birthday every year; but they were far from BFF\u2019s. But because this to-be-friend had died for her, they became BFF\u2019s. Their friendship didn\u2019t end in death; it started w\/ death \u2013 and this friendship will never end. Yea, Mari and Jesus are BFF\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Please come this Sunday to learn more about this One Who desires to be your BFF too, in the sermon I\u2019ve entitled, \u201cA Dying Friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of us know the hurt of friendships turned south. We had been BFF\u2019s (Best Friends Forever), but the forever part proved to be short-lived. I submit to you that if we were to assess our many friendships we currently enjoy, then a more accurate acronym to capture these relationships would be BFC\u2019s, that we\u2019re… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sermon-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pinky-swear-329329_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5192,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}