Talk

State of Our Unions

Ben Stuart
February, 27, 2022

Ben Stuart joins us with a message on the importance of friends. In our increasingly divisive and isolating culture, the state of friendships has only been getting worse. Ben shows us that there’s hope for all of us to forge solid friendships when we start by focusing on the true source of all friendships—God.

Scripture References

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My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
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Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
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You are my friends if you do what I command.
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I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
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This is my command: Love each other.
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“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
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If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
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“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
16This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
Ben Stuart
Ben Stuart
Ben Stuart is the pastor of Passion City Church D.C. Prior to joining Passion City Church, Ben served as the executive director of Breakaway Ministries on the campus of Texas A&M. He also earned a master’s degree in historical theology from Dallas Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Donna, live to inspire and equip people to walk with God for a lifetime.