Christianity should be joyful and hippy-like, but somewhere along the line control was added. That happens in any large organization given a long enough time-frame.
Yes, most definitely be a friend. My friendship kept a friend from committing suicide once. I wasn't there, which was all that much scarier, but he remembered me saying that if he moved to LA, I'd miss him and it would get boring. It was an innocent enough remark, but I meant it, and he didn't carry through.
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The party's over ... the drink ... and the luck ... ran out.
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