How many of your friends are Christian?

[tomsk]

Of your five closest friends - not including family members - how many are practising Christians?

I am interested in your answer, and also if you think you have the balance of Christian/non Christian friends in your life about right.

 

[Faithful Son]

I added the poll for you brother Tomsk. It's a good question.

I voted 2. I've only got 2 close friends which are Christians. The rest of them are not Christians, but I don't spend a lot of time around them. I do not think it's wrong to have friends which aren't Christians, but that's just the way things stand with me currently.

I'm praying to God to give me some more Christian friends.

God bless
Much love
teraside

 

[Cody]

I voted 5. Most of my closest friend are because they put God first and I look for that in a friend. Yet, I still have other friends that are not Christian and I continue to pray for them. Nice poll, brother and God Bless

 

[rizen1]

All my friends are christians, I'm the baby in the group and everyone of them went to bible school. This weekend I might go check out the school with them in Rhode Island.

 

[Haynaru]

I voted 5, well I have 5 or more close friends that are christians, but also I hace close friends that aren't. I spend a lot of time with my christian friends at church activities, and extra church activities. And my non-christian friends are from college.
I must say, that sometimes it's hard so much time spent at school with them, but thank God I have my christian friends!!!

 

[51_5_16-18]

My closest frfeinds are christina, we are close because we understand each other and talk about God. Many of my freinds that I am not as close too are not Christians. I beleive it is important to have freinds who are christians, to help and encourage you in spiritual matter. But it is also important to have freinds who arn't christians, because as christians it is our job to bring more peopel to God. Who better to bring then your freinds

 

[SpiritLedEd]

If All Your Friends Are Christians

If all or most of your friends are Christians, what are you doing to introduce people to Jesus? It is through relationship with Christians that people are drawn to the Lord - relationships and persistent prayer.

The story is told of the great evangelist D. L. Moody that he carried in his pocket a list of the names of one hundred people he was praying for for salvation. As each one came to Christ, he crossed their name off the list.

He may not have known all of those people personally, but its a goood bet that many, if not most, were his friends. By the time of his death, ninety-six of those people had come to Christ. The remaining four got saved at his funeral.

We need to cultivate non-Christian friendships. Tracts and other things might get people interested in the gospel, but it is through relationships with loving Christians that they come to Christ.

SLE

 

[Chad]

Excellent point brother Ed. The only way to reach out to the lost is is interact with them. Otherwise, we're being selfish "Christians"

 

[mounty]

I voted 0 as the only friends i have who are christians are online and i didnt know if they counted

God Bless xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

[Ann]

Four of my closest friends are Christians.

I know a lot of people whom I have casual friendships with, who are not Christians.

Blessings!

 

[51_5_16-18]

Another thing I notice is this pole only asked about your 5 "closest" freinds. What exactly does closest mean it could mean the people you spend the most time with. To me it means the people I would feel comfortable talking to anything about and who would understand and help guide me.
Also most of my close Christian freind go beyond freinds. I mean they become more like my brothers and sisters. And if we are Christains we are all brothers and sisters. I think that is so cool. We have brothers and sisters everywhere

 

[Pentecostal]

An accurate number was not available. I have many friends but they are all Christians.

When the opportunity arises I witness to the lost, but until they have received Christ as their Lord and savior I certainly do not count them as friends.

 

[Mike Scott]

Hey tomsk
Very interesting question!
When you state close friends, they are all Christian.
I have many work friends that know my beliefs and walk who are not Christian. We have good conversations when I get back from doing outreach to Mexico.
I have my sport friends who are not Christian but they are not in that category of being close friends. So as to state close not many.
All my high school friends kinda went there own way. Some of my adult friends tolerate me but make a point of letting me know where they stand almost like there is a fear there. Kinda weird when I have never preached at them, or use Christianize lingo around them.
Thanks again for tweaking our thought process.
Mike
aka grizzly for Christ

 

[grace07]

I cannot count it all how many friends I have. I have christian friends & non christian who are close to my heart. Like remembering my birthday n some occassion sending ecard. Some of them were from abroad especially christian too.. keeping in touch with each other and asking for prayers in need. Sharing testimony n so forth. Christian close friend to whom I trust that knows all about me. christian friends that I treasured that we shared the same interest of God's love..

 

[Johan]

Of my 5 closest friends, 5. I have many good atheist friends too though.

 

[Hekuran]

John Stott says “In the end there are only two attitudes which Christians can adopt toward the world. One is escape and the other is engagement.”

If we opt for engagement rather than escape, does that mean we should be cultivating more friendships outside the church?

 

[shipwrecksoul]

I have two friends, my wife of course and a friend named John.
5 somewhat close unbelievers as friends. I have many distant friends who are Christians all over the place.
I have 4 Pastors as close friends. I have one friend who is an evangelist in a backslid-den state as of now.
I have believe it one Muslim friend who even called me up about six months ago in which we have not seen each other for about 8 years, cool right, he is from Guyana.

I thought too that Id write this next sentence as well.
I have a few people who pretend to be my friend, the issue of the heart.

This was a cool question because it made me take stock of a few people I have not thought of for awhile.

 

[Danny21]

Everyone who I know in my town is a christian.

 

[ThePanda]

Out of my 5 closest friends, only 2 are Christians. The rest, plus other friends are atheists. It's really sad that they are proud of it...

 

[Boanerges]

A friend once told me "show me your friends and I will show you who you are".
I have 3 of what I consider really close friends and they are all preachers, evangelists and ministers.
True friends are a treasure for sure.
That does not preclude me from sharing Christ and showing love to the lost folks around me.