{"id":25874,"date":"2024-05-05T13:18:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T12:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=25874"},"modified":"2024-05-05T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T12:18:32","slug":"the-meaning-of-true-friendship","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=the-meaning-of-true-friendship","title":{"rendered":"The meaning of true friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><u>Gospel<\/u>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John 15.9\u201317<strong><u>&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.&nbsp;If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments and abide in his love.&nbsp;I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.&nbsp;No one has greater love than this, to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.&nbsp;You are my friends if you do what I command you.&nbsp;I do not call you servants&nbsp;any longer, because the servant&nbsp;does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.&nbsp;You did not choose me but I chose you. 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