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Friendships Day 96
Several members of the Household Body often combine their efforts to help another in need. A new Christian, who is an alcoholic, stumbles into a drinking binge. When a church friend notices her absence, a visit and lengthy counseling follows. A third Christian pays the rent. The prodigal eventually returns to her proper place in the Mystical Body. So Paul writes, "If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it."1 Those outside the Christian faith often see God himself in this small service.
In the Body of Christ, friendships strengthen individual faith. During the Vietnam Conflict, the Vietcong tried to break the spirit of American prisoners of war. Even under torture, it was not their patriotism or conviction that sustained them as much as friendships with other soldiers in their unit. Solitary confinement and disrupted friendships dragged down their fighting spirit more than physical hardship or torture.
Does your household church have her own special personality?
11 Corinthians 12.26. 2C. S. Lewis.
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