Sermon
Friends Who Will Go to the Mat
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
September 7, 2025 · 48 min
Summary
Luke 5:17-26 teaches that godly friends who carry others to Jesus make all the difference in spiritual transformation. The four friends' costly sacrifice to bring their paralyzed companion to Jesus demonstrates the theological importance of Christian community and the mutual faith-sharing essential to discipleship.
Highlights
Godly friends can make all the difference in your life. You need friends who will carry you to Jesus, and you need to be a friend who will carry others to Jesus.
You need to build friendships before you suffer so that you have friendships when you suffer. Christian friendships are like digging a well—if you wait until you're thirsty to start digging, it's too late.
People admire strength, but they connect with weakness. The moment you open up about the really hard stuff in your life is usually when real friendship starts to develop.