I would like to share some thoughts on Friendship. I missed church yesterday because of my work schedule and, after the depressing reality of missing worship, I spent several hours on the phone with friends and this was a great encouragement to me. Our friends in Christ are important to us. The Scripture represents it to be the spirit of all true saints, to prefer the welfare of God's people as their chief joy.
Friendship is the marriage of affections.
Hence it follows, that the special affection which the saints have in this world to others saints, who are their friends, will in some respect remain in another world. And if you think your yoke fellows have faults, you should consider whether you yourselves have not some too.