Friendship

WE HAVE A LOT IN COMMON!

1. Someone with a birthday in the same month as yours

2. Someone who has lived in the same city as you, previous to this one

3. Someone who has one of the same names as you (first, middle, or last)

4. Someone with the same initials as you (first and last)

5. Someone whose mother or father has the same first name as your mother or father

6. Someone who has the same hobby as you

7. Someone who is the same height (within ½ inch) or weight (within 2 lbs.) as you

8. Someone who is wearing the same brand of shoes as you

9. Someone who saw the same movie last that you did

10. Someone who this past year has read three of the books that you read (not for school)

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1. What do most friends argue about?

• other friends

• amount of time spent together

• what to do/where to go

• opposite sex

• physical appearance

• gossip

2. Name places where you first meet a friend.

• school

• sports team

• party

• church

• neighborhood

• club

• through your family

• through another friend

3. Name things you do when visiting your friends.

• talk/Gossip

• play cards/games

• watch TV/movies

• listen to music

• party

• eat

4. Name a key factor necessary for a good friendship.

• acceptance

• trust

• honesty

• common interests

Proverbs

Read these Proverbs about friendship and discuss their implications: 17:17; 18:24; 19:4 (real friendship?); 22:24; 27:6, 9–10, 17.

Proverbs 17:17 KJV (WS)

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 18:24 KJV (WS)

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Proverbs 19:4 KJV (WS)

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

Proverbs 22:24 KJV (WS)

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

Proverbs 27:6 KJV (WS)

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Proverbs 27:9–10 KJV (WS)

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Proverbs 27:17 KJV (WS)

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.