The Influence of Friends
March 29, 2025

“The Influence of FRIENDS”
‘Guardrail Series’ – PART #3a
(all quotes by Andy Stanley)

’ David had ‘SPIRITUAL’ & ‘MENTAL’ Guardrails to Protect Himself FROM DOING ‘ANYTHING’
that would ‘DISHONOR

or ‘DISHONOR

’ your Guardrails
is HUGE because ‘
’ David must have
’ those ‘Guardrails’
It LED to ‘ ’ & Horrific Consequences of Sin

At Some Point in your life, YOU are going to find yourself
CLOSE to People – ‘


WHO ARE MOVING IN THE

THAT YOU’RE MOVING IN

When THAT HAPPENS
YOU HAVE TO HAVE ‘


(guardrails set up away from the danger)
OR THEY MIGHT END UP

(2 Corinthians 6:14)

’ INTERACTION
WITH ‘
’ PEOPLE
and
’ INTERACTION
WITH ‘

BE CAREFUL & MAKE SURE
that you are ACTUALLY ‘ ’ TO
AND NOT ‘
’ IN
(James 17:16)

“YOUR ‘FRIENDS’
ULTIMATELY ‘


AND MAY EVEN ‘
THE ‘
’ & ‘
OF YOUR ‘LIFE’”
(Proverbs 22:24-25)

“The thing that makes Friendship so ‘


is the thing that makes Friendship so ‘ ’”

When we are WITH our Friends
WE ‘

LEADS TO ‘
(1 Corinthians 15:33 / Proverbs 12:26)

It’s NOT necessarily something we ‘


It’s a ‘Principle’
It can work ‘
’ YOU
or
It can work ‘ ’ YOU

Because Friendship can be ‘DANGEROUS’
WE NEED ‘


(James 4:4)