Category: Friendships

GBs in The Bible: Paul and Barnabas

In my introduction to this series about GBs in The Bible, I suggested that Scripture provides some great examples of God Buddies (“GBs” for short). Each of the next posts in this series will explain the biblical foundation and Christ-like characteristics that helped transform one or more of the people in the story as they were used for God’s bigger purposes. I begin with more about the Apostle Paul and his companion, Barnabas who you initially learned about in my post, Three Relationships Every Man Needs. A Peer Turned Mentor The story of Paul and Barnabas demonstrates two important aspects of God Buddy relationships: doing life together with a peer, and having a mentor to help guide and teach you about what it means to be a godly man (or women, since females should also have a mentor). You may recall Paul and Barnabas traveled together to the island of

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GBs in The Bible: Introduction

After summarizing my theory about the need for deeper friendships in Making the Case for God Buddies, I’m now beginning a new series of posts that provide examples of “GBs” (that’s short for “God Buddies” for those of you just joining in) in the Bible to further support my position. Each of these biblical friendships demonstrate how ordinary and often sinful people are transformed for God’s bigger purposes in the world. You may recall in What Exactly is a God Buddy relationship?, I explained that this type of friendship is different because it connects you both on a “soul level”. My belief is a relationship between God Buddies can only occur if it is built on a solid foundation of biblical characteristics that I will detail in a later series. So let’s start at the beginning. The beginning of time. God created everything “Good”… In the beginning, God created the

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Missing My GodBuddy

This is a tough week for me and many others as a piece of us was taken away too early. On April 1, 2014 one of my earliest God Buddies, Christopher J. Davolos died unexpectedly after exercising during his lunch break at work. Chris was such a great influence on me and embodied the God Buddy concept that this entire website is dedicated to Chris. In Three Relationships Every Man Needs, I suggested every man needs a Paul (mentor), a Barnabas (peer), and a Timothy (protege) in their life. As I wrote in that post, Barnabas and Paul were peers who became close friends as they traveled together on the first of Paul’s three missionary journeys. Barnabas, whose name means “Son of Encouragement” and “Son of Exhortation” (see Acts 4:36) was at Paul’s side during his best times and also his worst times. Barnabas’ support helped Paul become more confident

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