Spiritual Friendship: Learning to Be Friends with God and One Another

Resources for Application

183

(6) a group of some five hundred acquaintances whom Paul describes as “sisters and brothers” to whom Jesus appeared after his resurrection (1 Cor 15:6); (7) and then many more known names whom Jesus knew from his ministry to the crowds (Mark 3:32; 6:34; 8:2; 9:15; 10:46).

Figure 2: Jesus’ Pyramid of Prioritized Friendship

Jesus’ relational pyramid provides a model to follow, yet our lives look different today than the life he lived as a first century Jew and as one called to save humanity and redeem creation. While it is important to acknowledge these differences, there is still much about Jesus’ life we