Relationship and Friendship

Modern people in the 21st century are accustomed to the term relationship. I agree with the relationship, but the word, friendship is a bit unfamiliar to me. It means that the word, friendship has already become an old language. It has become an age when relations are needed more than friendship. We are creating a network with SNS. We want to get a lot of people's empathy by writing our daily lives with this network, and feel presence and satisfaction that I am there. However, this relationship seems sympathetic and you can feel presence, but it seems to be missing. That is 'emotion'. So it seems that true relationships are stronger in analog rather than digital methods. How can we get friends from a network of irrelevant Internet connections? The friendship we can get from sacrificing myself have to be talked in this age again.

Jesus says, "If a man forsakes his life for a friend, there is no greater love than this." And Jesus showed us a love that does not mind the death that plunges into the fire, And he has become our friend. In Christianity, therefore, we talk about sacrifice and dedication that loses one's life. In this respect, Christianity is radical. So if our thoughts are based on this Christian sacrificial love, we can hang out with anyone in the home, workplace, and church, And eat and drink with anyone, and share the pain together. There will be discomfort, pain and trouble. Nevertheless, we can be friends.

Now, we have to talk about being a true friend of somebody, just as Jesus became our friend.