Guardrail a personal standard of behavior that becomes a matter of Conscience

Intro

• Why are relationships important?-Friends can actually determine the direction and the quality of your life.
• Proverbs 13:20“Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.”
• Definition of fool- a fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong but doesn’t care

“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself”

Proverbs 26:4

Guardrails for relationships from Jeff & Others:

1. your friend group isn’t moving in the direction you want your life to be moving in.
2. when you catch yourself pretending to be somebody other than who you know you are.
3. You feel pressure to compromise something you really thought you believed in
4. You hear yourself saying, I’ll go but I won’t participate.
5. When you hope the people you care about most don’t find out where you’ve been or who you’ve been with.

The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself thru Love.

Gal 5:6

Truth: Never confuse compassion with Wisdom

Question: Will you do what you know you need to do with what you just heard?