# MS Spiritual day: Friendship

<div id="bkmrk-session-1%3A">**<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;">Session 1:</span></span>**</div><div id="bkmrk-objective%3A">  
**Objective:**</div>- What is true friendship?
- What does it look like? (3 types of friendship)

**Source**

•LA Diocese on Friendship: [https://www.lacopts.org/story/friendship/](https://www.lacopts.org/story/friendship/)

<div id="bkmrk-session-2%3A"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;">**Session 2:**</span></span></div><div id="bkmrk-"></div><div id="bkmrk-objective%3A-0">**Objective:**</div>- What does the Bible say about Friendship? (Good friendships &amp; Bad)
- Give Biblical/Saintly examples of friendships (David &amp; Jonathan, Abba Apollo &amp; Abba Abib, etc.)
- Unhealthy/Bad friendships (David &amp; Saul, Jonadab &amp; Amnon (2 Samuel 13); discuss how these ‘friendships’ were unhealthy because one was doing wrong/bad to the other, or they encouraged each other to do something wrong)

<div id="bkmrk-session-3%3A">**<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Session 3:</span>**</div><div id="bkmrk--0"></div><div id="bkmrk-objective%3A-1">**Objective:**</div>- How can I choose good friends? / Boundaries in Friendship
- Discuss qualities of a good friend and how to set boundaries within friendships (I.e. not everything needs to be shared; boundaries if this friend is of the opposite sex; friendship doesn’t take away from important things like family and church; friendship doesn’t replace God, etc.)

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</div><div id="bkmrk-key-verses%3A%C2%A0">**Key Verses:** </div><div id="bkmrk-%22do-not-be-deceived%3A">"Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.” 1 Corinthians 15:33</div><div id="bkmrk-%22he-who-walks-with-w"><span class="text Prov-13-20" id="bkmrk-%22he-who-walks-with-w-0">"He who walks with wise *men* will be wise, </span><span class="text Prov-13-20">But the companion of fools will be destroyed." Proverbs 13:20</span></div><div id="bkmrk--2"></div><div id="bkmrk--3"></div><div id="bkmrk-additional-resources">**Additional resources:**</div>- Sirach 6
- 2 Samuel 13
- HEMY Q&amp;A:[ https://www.suscopts.org/q&amp;a/index.php?catid=161](https://www.suscopts.org/q&a/index.php?catid=161)
- [Example of Saintly Friends: St. Apollo &amp; St. Abib ](https://www.suscopts.org/resources/literature/189/st-apollo-and-st-abib-youthful-purity/)
- [Coptic Orthodox Answers: What is friendship?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iO5yEHiu0Y&ab_channel=CopticOrthodoxAnswers)
- [Grade 7 Children of Light Curriculum (page 14)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D-E-iOLNoL4h6lPCDN4BtHn6D3DaAd0a/view?usp=drivesdk)