Reference

John 15:9-13
Your Move: Jesus-Shaped Friendships

After six weeks of looking up, the Your Move series takes a turn. In "Jesus-Shaped Friendships," Pastor Charlie Miller moves us through the discipleship cycle from Abide to Connect, showing that the love we rest in with Jesus was never meant to stay vertical. Anchored in John 15:9-13, where Jesus shifts from "abide in me" to "love one another" and calls us friends, this message asks a piercing question: at 2 a.m., when life falls apart, who are your five? Drawing on 1 John 3, Romans 12, Proverbs 27, and Matthew 5, Pastor Charlie unpacks four marks of a Jesus-shaped friend—putting others first, showing up when it costs, telling the truth in love, and making things right—and reframes what it really means to lay down your life. Connection flows from abiding, modeled by the One whose cross was His 2 a.m. moment.