{"id":3042,"date":"2014-09-17T13:51:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2014-09-17T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T20:51:54","slug":"do-you-pressure-your-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2014\/do-you-pressure-your-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Pressure Your Friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"quotes\">&#8220;If you make your friends do things to please you,<br \/>\nyou are loving your own reflection through them.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Pete Martens<\/div>\n<p>If you start feeling like I&#8217;m conditioning our friendship on your 100% compliance with my wishes, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, let me know if such conditioning reaches even 20%.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to be that kind of friend. <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"capt-pix\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2013\/love-for-people-problems\/\" title=\"Love for People Problems?\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/asihaveloved-b.jpg\" alt=\"As I have loved you...\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Love one another&#8230;<\/em><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clp.org\/product\/getting_along_with_people_gods_way_2478?a=ANABOOOR0\" title=\"Getting Along With People | John Coblentz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/covers\/gettingalongwithpeoplegodsway.jpg\" alt=\"Getting Along With People God's Way\" style=\"width:191px; height:300px\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn other reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/wanted-close-friends\/\" title=\"Wanted: Close Friends\">Wanted: Close Friends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2013\/love-for-people-problems\/\" title=\"Love for People Problems? | Panting Hart | Mark Roth\">Love for People Problems?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/cultivating-noble-friendships\/\" title=\"Cultivating Noble Friendships | Panting Hart\">Cultivating Noble Friendships<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/clp.org\/product\/getting_along_with_people_gods_way_2478?a=ANABOOOR0\" title=\"Getting Along With People | John Coblentz\">Getting Along With People God&#8217;s Way<\/a> &#8212; book by John Coblentz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, the quote is excerpted from an article in a recent &#8220;Western Fellowship News.&#8221; I got it from our congregational announcement sheet last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is again&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\">&#8220;If you make your friends do things to please you,<br \/>\nyou are loving your own reflection through them.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Pete Martens<\/div>\n<p>Comments?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you condition your friendship on their compliance?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Do You Pressure Your Friends? 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