IMPLICATIONS OF CHRISTIAN FRIENDSHIP
This has certainly been a tediously long series of theological reflection. For this reason, a lot of personal contemplation has had to be undertaken, coupled with the enunciation of my experience of the embodiment of friendship within my own community of people whom I call "spiritual friends".

Much has been said, and yet much more still needs to be said.

If the previous segment of this series may have tended to come across as being rather theoretical (theological and philosophical), this segment seeks to demonstrate that the implications of those theoretical thoughts are crucial. Furthermore, the visibility of those implications are to be embodied concretely in the life of the Christian community.

I am also (somewhat boldly) suggesting that the embodiment of these implications is not a negotiable component in the Christian life and faith, for the restoration of relationship and friendship is fundamentally what God seeks with and among his people.

Hence, in the next several entries, I will attempt to delineate how the fundamental importance of friendship must be concretely recovered in different aspects of the Christian life. In missing out on this, we may well be missing out on that which is most important in the economy of the Kingdom.

It is my personal hope that in articulating these things, I will not merely be trying to practise what I preach, but rather, preaching what I practise.