BACK TO BASICS // PT 2. // HOW DO I MAKE GOOD FRIENDS // JOSIAH WEECE

Most of us left high school or college and quietly forgot how to make friends, or settled for the ones that were simply convenient. In this message from our Back to the Basics series, Pastor Josiah tackles a question most of us have asked in private: how do I actually make good friends? Drawing from Proverbs, the example of Jesus' inner circle, and research on how friendship actually forms, he lays out a simple but demanding framework: pick the right friends, for the right reasons, do the right things, for a really long time. Along the way he unpacks why your closest relationships shape you more than you realize, why shared experiences, both the highs and the lows, accelerate depth in a way another dinner out never will, and why consistency beats chemistry every time. If your group chats are busy but nobody really knows you, this one is for you. We also introduce Rooted, a ten-week group designed to give you a real head start on the friendships you're looking for. You were not built to do life alone, and the good news is you don't have to.