We Quakers call ourselves the Religious Society of Friends, but whose friends are we? Each other's? We are each other's friends and we are friends of the Truth but we are also Christ's friends. It is written:
"This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you." Joh 15:12 - 16 We are Christ's friends if we do whatsoever he commands us.
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