SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER 2015 JOHN 15:9-17

This week I’ve been doing some research into the subject of friendship. Actually, I was surfing the internet, but ‘research’ sounds so much better, doesn’t it? It sounds like I was doing something constructive, rather than idling away Friday afternoon. So, be very suspicious when a preacher tells you they were doing research. So, I found some fascinating things about friendship. I discovered that William Scott has 6,223 friends. Facebook friends, that is. He holds the world record. Over 6,000? How is that even possible? I have 86, and some of them I rarely even think about, let alone communicate with them except at a very superficial level. I also found out that there’s a website called Rentafriend.com. Are you traveling to a new city? Do you need someone to show you around town? Maybe you want to take in a movie or enjoy a nice restaurant and need some pleasant company to share it with. Well, if you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions this service is for you. For just $10 an hour you can meet up with a ‘friend’ who will be that perfect someone for a round of golf, or a coffee, or just a marathon Netflix binge. Now, it’s not a dating site, it is rentafriend.com and as of last Friday, there are over half a million friends available for hire worldwide. 

And then I read about Robin Dunbar..... (Read the full Sermon here): http://s3.amazonaws.com/dfc_attachments/public/documents/3207380/20150510_Friend_or_slave.pdf