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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Bill Bush · Feb 15, 2018
True friendship, like the bond forged between soldiers in combat, requires the courage to speak honestly into a friend's life — saying what they need to hear, not merely what they want to hear, and not simply what you want to say. Drawing from the story of Joab confronting David in 2 Samuel 19 and wisdom from Proverbs, the sermon argues that staying silent when a friend needs truth is just as harmful as empty flattery. Real war buddies lean into whichever is harder for them — the honest word or the timely encouragement — because both, spoken at the right moment, can become a defining 'statement piece' in a person's life.