The Value of “Couples Friendship”
My wife and I moved from Washington, D.C. to Nashville in 2006. We left a 5,000+ member church with five services to join a smaller, 100+ member church with one “traditional” service. We left a small group couples ministry that we had to split every year because it grew too big to start over from scratch with three other couples. As our new church moves into a transition to merge with another area church in the denomination, the value of couples friendship becomes even more important.
What do I mean? Let me share with you an email that I received today from a close friend. Read the excitement in her words:
I am all uplifted today, b/c we just had one of the neatest weekends — a couple of our friends married and the wedding was a huge reunion of my husband’s old friends from his early days in Christian Community, many of whom I had not met yet (but had heard a thousand good stories about them) and then we hosted two of the couples to our home for dinner on Sunday. I had the simultaneous feeling of excitement in meeting them and feeling as if we had known each other for always. . . it was really awesome, and our prayer time was a real gift. Whew.
So am bringing that goodness into our office and our work today!
Feel it? In the past four months, we have grown closer to our own Thursday night friends more than ever before. We have been watching Tommy Nelson’s Song of Solomon series, sharing our happinesses and hurts, and growing and growing together as couples.
Do you have these relationships in your life? Why not?
