Friendship

FAST FOR THE WEEK: SOCIAL MEDIA AND INTERNET
Turn off Twitter, Facebook, blogs and your internet news. Check and answer work emails and nothing else. If at all possible, put a Lent “Out of Office” reply on your personal email letting people know you’ll get back to them next week. Keep journal entries of what it’s like to unplug and disconnect—to not obsessively check email/Facebook, etc. Do you feel disconnected... or free? 


PASSAGE FOR THE DAY
As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.

10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." (Matthew 9:9-13, NIV)


REFLECTION QUESTIONS AND PRAYER
Consider: Who are you friends with? Why? What would it look like to intentionally seek out people who need you to be their friend? 

Pray: That God would show you someone you can befriend in a way that others couldn’t.