Choosing Your Squad: Building Godly Friendships
Explore how choosing friends wisely shapes your life and faith. Learn to build a supportive, value-sharing friend group that uplifts and encourages you.
📖 Introduction
Friendships in our teenage years are incredibly influential. The people we choose to surround ourselves with can shape our attitudes, behaviors, and even our faith journey. It's a time of growth, exploration, and identity formation. Yet, with so many voices and opinions around, how do we wisely select a friend group that lifts us up rather than pulls us down?
In this study, we'll explore biblical wisdom on choosing friends who share our values, encourage our walk with God, and build us up in love and grace. The Bible offers practical guidance about the importance of fellowship, community, and surrounding ourselves with those who will spur us on in faith. We'll uncover the qualities to look for in friends and how to be the kind of friend God calls us to be.
Throughout the next three days, we will journey through scriptures and reflections that help us identify the characteristics of a healthy, godly squad. Whether you're navigating peer pressure, loneliness, or the challenge of staying true to your beliefs, this plan will provide encouragement and direction. Together, let's learn how to build strong, godly friendships that celebrate our identity in Christ and empower us to live boldly for Him.