Friendship
This was written offline, after further reflection on disciple making. There's many subjects I write about personally to concrete for myself what the bible really says that I can believe, yet many others that bear writing publicly over as well, in an undecided stage or not. Is it not better, instead of allowing relationships to start at any time, indeed, even encouraging relationships via open casual-ity and exuberant friendliness, to leave open the doors for more, is it not better to hold those at bay? For once started, there is no turning back. What I exhort is a difficult choice. I am not single because I happen to be that way. It is a choice that I proactively uphold, and it is a choice that I do not always like. Each day I am in contact with those I would not be sad to be friends with, contrary to complete abstinence from friendship, some small amount of camaraderie I can't help but cultivate. However, allowing these individuals to become interested in me inherently pul